America's coal fired generators produce more of a carbon footprint than the Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, yet Americans seem much more hyped on cleaning up Alberta, than what is right in front of them. Is "dirty" oil more significant than "dirty" coal?
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"How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you don't see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye." America: we got wood in our heads.
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Dirty Oil is just oil with sand in it. It's also called Heavy oil. There is nothing "dirty" about it. The use of it in place of crude oil is very inefficient in comparison as you have to use 2 tons of it to produce one barrel of crude by heating it in furnaces or pumping various solvents into the ground when you can't directly mine it. But, after that it's refined the same as crude oil. Dirty coal plants directly pump all sorts of nasty stuff into the air. You can't compare the two as one is a process of using coal and one is simply the name of a source of a raw material.
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How are you relating the two? One is a furnace fuel the other is a mining technique.
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