A Novel Way to Fight the Keystone XL Pipeline

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10. Rail and truck are being used massively

I think there's a serious lack of information regarding what's transported. I wrote a short primer about this in another thread, but I'll repeat it a bit here: the Alberta tar sand, Venezuela Orinoco, and other super heavy oils are not transportable long distance. The crude is either blended to make a pumpable blend, a bit lighter than Mexico Maya or similar to an Arab heavy,,,or it's processed in an upgrader and used to make a synthetic oil. This involves cracking the heavy oil molecules and adding hydrogen. The synthetic oil is designed, and there are many types. Some of them have a lot of hydrogen added and look like a light high quality crude, without any sulfur. So the industry will indeed get around the problem, if they have to they'll make a super high quality syncrude w/o sulfur. All of us create the pull by consuming gasoline and diesel. And this pull is gigantic. It will be satisfied.