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    This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From

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    Image of zeeboid zeeboid
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    "Reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil" includes drilling here. if you are agasint drilling here, clearly you are for outsourcing that money to people who don't like us.
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    Image of John Krewson John Krewson
    09/24/09

    @zeeboid: Like Canadians.
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    Image of zeeboid zeeboid
    09/25/09

    @John Krewson: Check: California, Florida, Golf of Mexico, and Alaska. last time I checked, they were not America's Hat.
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    Image of ghelary ghelary
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    Interstingly, Sakhalin Island, which is one of the major place for producing oil in Russia is not displayed as part of Russia...

    (Look at North of Japan)
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/24/09

    @ghelary: It’s a vestige of World War II, the island is claimed by both Russia and Japan, but has been controlled by Russia since the end of the war. There has been a dispute between the two countries over the control of the island since that time.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    2001? Canada?

    Anybody see a connection here?
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    Image of The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd. The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd.
    09/24/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver:
    Nope - but you're welcome. Keep the $ following my SUV driving American Brothers and Sisters.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/24/09

    @The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd.: Guess you read Philalawyer?
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    Since when does stuff coming from Canada get labeled as imported?
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    Image of Eric N Squires Eric N Squires
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    Ugh, people have been clanging the "our oil is running out!!" alarm since the Edwardian era. Like these fancy graphics, they never account for new claims discovered, presently worked sites turning out to be larger than we knew, or old sites filling back in.

    As for consumption, what this chart neglects to mention is that our economy, even when it's down, produces orders of magnitude more than almost any other nation on Earth... which makes us the financial locomotive most of these other countries are almost entirely dependent on either economically or militarily.
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    09/24/09

    @Eric N Squires: You're right, we should burn as much of it as possible as quickly as possible.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    09/24/09

    @GreenN_Gold:

    Preferably through a supercharge and turbocharged engine installed in a lightweight chassis!
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    Image of AldisDangler AldisDangler
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    How come I never see Canadian shieks?
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment AldisDangler was starred AldisDangler was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @AldisDangler: You see them in Alberta. They just tend to choose a $100k Super Duty over a Gallardo.
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    Image of Comrade Clockwork Comrade Clockwork
    09/24/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: I was actually in Cow Town a couple weeks ago. I saw plenty of shiny Bently/Aston/Gallardo/R8 on 17th.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @Comrade Clockwork: Cow town doesn't really count. Let's see if I can explain...

    Rest of Alberta:
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    Calgary:
    [farm1.static.flickr.com]
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    09/24/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: How did my photo get on there? They told me only the toughest bare back riders wear pink ... I guess I misunderstood what they meant ....
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    Image of amorak amorak
    09/24/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: Says the guy from the "Armpit of Alberta" (Edmonton):
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment Edited by amorak at 09/24/09 4:19 PM amorak was starred amorak was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @amorak: I'm not from Edmonton, it's just the closest major centre that people might have heard of. But as far as I'm concerned, all of Alberta is pretty much the armpit of Alberta. Calgary is just the armpittiest.
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    I’m just glad we have found another use for Canada, other than using it to drive to Alaska.
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    Image of TampaRon TampaRon
    09/24/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: ...and separate us from the crazy lady. You know the one.
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/24/09

    @TampaRon: Well, if you live in Alaska, I would guess your speaking of Nancy Pelosi.
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    Image of John Krewson John Krewson
    09/24/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: Unlike Palin, Pelosi is useful. What would the Republicans do without her?
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    Image of abgwin abgwin
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    Wow. Bush really was misguided. He should have had the CIA fabricate evidence that Canada was behind 9/11, had WMD hidden in snowdrifts, and was massing Mounties at the Minnesota border.We'd be in much better shape today, and could actually reduce the oil imports, as we'd own North America from the Red River up!
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    Formerlythegreatestdriver promoted this comment Edited by abgwin at 09/24/09 11:12 AM abgwin was starred abgwin was unstarred
    Image of mikedrawcar mikedrawcar
    09/24/09

    @abgwin: actually, that's why it's absurd to say that we invaded for oil. China is the major user of Iraqi oil. Not that it was right to invade for any of the other stated reasons, but it wasn't about oil, directly.
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    09/24/09

    @mikedrawcar: And that's why it was about oil: to try to block China's access to it.
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    Image of abgwin abgwin
    09/24/09

    @mikedrawcar: or, put another way, there was no valid reason at all.
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    Interesting factoid about Canadian oil: the US gov't sold a private company a nuclear bomb because some genius figured that since the Russians were attempting to get oil with nukes, it should be done in Canada's oil sands, too. They built an airstrip and dug a giant hole in the earth but thankfully someone came to their senses before the bomb was detonated.
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    Image of dopplerd dopplerd
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    Interesting that you are calling this stuff that comes out of Canada Canadian "Oil" as it is really oily rock that is really difficult to get usable oil out of. Here is an video explaining the process: [www.wttw.com]
    I found it interesting how much this looks like coal mining and REALLY want to drive around in a 3 story tall, 400 ton capacity dump truck.
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment dopplerd was starred dopplerd was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @dopplerd: Oily sand, largely. And by the time you guys get it, it's oil.

    Also, that's only the most famous stuff. Around here, it's traditional oil from traditional wells, drilled and pumped just like anywhere else in the world.
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    Image of 40Valve 40Valve
    09/24/09

    @dopplerd: I've driven a couple. They are surprisingly easy to drive.
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment 40Valve was starred 40Valve was unstarred
    Image of dopplerd dopplerd
    09/24/09

    @40Valve: Not suprising, everybody gets out of YOUR way.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @40Valve: That reminds me. Years ago in my early teenaged years, my dad was the acting manager for a huge open pit mine. I frequently went up to the mine with him when I was on summer vacation, and as I wasn't obnoxious, a lot of the guys working there got used to me. One offered to let me drive a huge beast of a front-end loader. I can't try and guess the size through the haze of memory, but let's just say, "fucking huge".

    The only thing that struck me was the fact that when I climbed into the cab, it had an airbag on the steering wheel. I remember thinking that by the time something significant enough happened that you needed an airbag in a vehicle this size, it was probably too late to need an airbag anyhow.
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    Image of wojo wojo
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    What you see is a map of countries that sell oil to us. What the Government sees is a list of bombing destinations.

    Sorry Canada.
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    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    09/24/09

    @wojo to Ford-Awesome SHO, Great Job!: We burnt down your whitehouse once we can do it again!
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @wojo: Like your government can find us.
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    Image of LoganSix LoganSix
    09/24/09

    @PowerTryp forever Minardi: Please start with the Capitol building first... make sure all the congress people are still inside. Thanks.
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    09/24/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: Detroit PD can.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: Only accidentally.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    09/25/09

    @wojo to Ford-Awesome SHO, Great Job!: : The intro movie to the game Fallout is alarmingly on the mark...(crisis strikes, Canada's annexed) then, it doesn't help that Canada loves to cut military funding and use antique equipment that's falling apart. We'd be in a lot of trouble if our guys didn't train so hard!
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    Image of Timtoolman, sporadically speaking Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    Isn't anyone concerned that Canada and Russia are sucking all of the oil out from under Alaska?
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    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    09/24/09


    @Timtoolman, still looking for work.: This is where almost all the oil you get from Canada comes from, notice it's proximity to Alaska.

    Also it's not underneith the ground so much as mixed in with it, hence the name Oil Sands.
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment Edited by PowerTryp, Starless wonder. at 09/24/09 10:58 AM PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was starred PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was unstarred
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    09/24/09


    @Timtoolman, still looking for work.:
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    FP: Your Volvo is awesome! Anyway promoted this comment aurora40 was starred aurora40 was unstarred
    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    09/25/09

    @aurora40: It's gone this far and no one's said it yet?
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    My Gasoline Prayer

    Dear LORD,

    Thank you first of all for Col. Edwin Drake and his "Folly". Thank you for providing diligent folks like this, whose perseverance has blessed many. Please bless petroleum and all of its many by-products that fuel the world. I thank you for the bounty of petroleum that you’ve already provided, that has improved my families and many others in ways seen and unseen. I pray that you will give petroleum engineers the knowledge to extract more energy from the ground and chemist the ability to extract more products more efficiently from a barrel of oil. I pray that every time a drilling rigs bit hits the ground, crude oil will spring forth, and spray into the sky with rapturous glory. I pray that there would be enough oil to fuel high powered cars I love, all the way to the lowly tractor, putt putting along in the third world, to feed the worlds hungry. I pray that petroleum prices would stay low, which will restrain murderous thugs and dictators, but at the same time improve the quality of life for the poor and rich alike.

    I thank you for the plastic that is derived from petroleum that has helped make products safer, electrically safe and ergonomic. I thank you for not requiring my family and others to have to use dangerous, dirty, unpredictable and very costly horses and mules for transportation. I thank you for the ease and convenience automobiles have brought into our lives. I thank you for planes, trains, cargo ships and semi trucks that can quickly bring fresh goods to the market place, from far away lands, so that wonderful fruit and vegetables can be enjoyed year around, that without petroleum, would be near impossible.

    If global warming is true, then I thank you for the warm weather which will make life more comfortable, and the increased crop production. If global cooling is true, then I thank you for the cool weather, because my children love the snow, and thank you for the warm house you have provided to my family and many others.

    I ask that you allow the scales to fall from the eyes of the critics of petroleum and let them see the true light that it has brought to a darkened world. Help them to see the truth of how the world would be, with out this resource to fuel it. Let them see the manure, flies, and dead horses laying in the streets and the disease that come with out it. Let them see that gasoline and diesel is the highest-energy-density fuel and that there is simply no comparable source of practical, portable energy. Let them see how difficult travel near and far would be without this wonderful commodity. Let them have compassion on the poor of the world, whose lives would be far worse and treacherous without your precious gift of petroleum.

    Thank you for hearing my prayer Oh LORD,

    Amen and Amen.

    Oh and please give me a nice Riviera from the sixties,

    Amen
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    Edited by Flathead Smith at 09/24/09 10:53 AM Flathead Smith was starred Flathead Smith was unstarred
    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    09/24/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: COTD nod and a heart clickey for that
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    Image of Neener Neener
    09/24/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: It's going to kill you when I tell you this but I must:

    God drives a hybrid.
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    Image of jedchev jedchev
    09/24/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: Amen to you, sir. I will pray to the petroleum god for a Rivi for you. You deserve a nice 65 with a 425 Nailhead and clamshell lights.
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/24/09

    @jedchev: Will have Dual Quads?
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    09/24/09

    @Neener: I'm sure She does.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    "Imports to the US?" Something clumsy about that construction.
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    Image of John Krewson John Krewson
    09/24/09

    @snapoversteer should STFU because: See, this is why you got that star.
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    09/25/09

    @John Krewson: Compulsive editing disorder is why I got a star?
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    Image of DonSchenck DonSchenck
    09/24/09

    In reply to This Is Where Gasoline Really Comes From
    We CAN reduce our oil consumption; we've done it before!

    From a report by Rocky Mountain Institute:

    "Saving oil isn’t just theoretical. From 1977 to 1985 real
    U.S. GNP grew 21 percent, the number of registered
    vehicles grew 20 percent, but total oil use fell 15 percent.
    The oil saving in 1985 equaled three times our 1986
    imports from the Persian Gulf."
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    Image of z0iid z0iid
    09/24/09

    @DonSchenck: use your brain... the 80's was the start of the 4 cylinder, fuel miserly, vehicle production boom. of course oil use fell....
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment z0iid was starred z0iid was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @z0iid: Uh, I believe that was his point.
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    Image of z0iid z0iid
    09/24/09

    @Deartháir II: umm, but his beginning statement was: " We CAN reduce our oil consumption; we've done it before!"... so... we start mass producing 2 cylinder vehicles? is that what he is saying?
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    Edited by z0iid at 09/24/09 11:54 AM z0iid was starred z0iid was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/24/09

    @z0iid: Or... just build more fuel efficient cars? No need to jump to extremes.
     Reply
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    Image of z0iid z0iid
    09/24/09

    @Deartháir II: the only reason americans tolerated low power fuel efficient vehicles was because of the relatively high fuel prices. the masses will not stop purchasing trucks, suv's, high power sports cars, etc as long as they believe they are paying a "fair" or "acceptable" rate for fuel.
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    09/24/09

    @DonSchenck: Yay, recessions!
     Reply
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