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yellowdogintexas

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8. not to mention none of that oil was coming to the US supply

Reply to Ziggysmom (Reply #6)

Fri Jun 17, 2022, 03:20 PM

Jun 2022

instead it would have been sold abroad.

It is terribly dirty stuff; according to MrYellowdog who is a retired petroleum geologist it is called tar sand oil for a reason. It is thick and gooey like tar, expensive to refine and highly polluting

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