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And then what?"

Use magic laser beams to convey it in to your vehicle's tank from Canada?

Yours is one of the dumber comments I have read on here and that is saying a lot.

You think we need the Canadian product in Keystone to fill our gas tanks? Google “drilled but uncompleted”. The only reason we import so much Canadian crude is that they can’t send it anywhere else.

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Posted by upgrayedd

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Posted on 11/16/17 at 10:19 pm to lostinbr

I've been wondering how expensive Canadian oil sand crude is still economically viable.

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Posted by lostinbr

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Member since Oct 2017

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Posted on 11/16/17 at 10:21 pm to upgrayedd

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Eh, those companies are pretty big players in the game. Bad PR won't really affect them that much.

I’m not saying they can’t afford the bad PR. Just that as huge, publicly traded companies they want no part of it. It’s actually quite surprising to me just how much it matters to their upper management. Shell especially comes to mind.

ETA: To your other point, I wonder the same thing. It’s crazy when you look at the amount of upgrade/conversion to make anything useful out of that asphalt and the costs to transport the stuff.. dilution and whatnot.

Hell they could probably burn the carrier off at the leak site and call it a new parking lot

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Posted by cave canem

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Posted on 11/16/17 at 11:58 pm to lostinbr

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You think we need the Canadian product in Keystone to fill our gas tanks? Google “drilled but uncompleted”. The only reason we import so much Canadian crude is that they can’t send it anywhere else.

You need to try google out once more and notice that DUC's would not cover 5% of the shortfall were we to stop importing.

It is almost like you skipped that part on purpose.

Or was it simply too dificult a concept for you to grasp?

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Posted by Scoop

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Posted on 11/17/17 at 12:06 am to EthanL

You should not drive your car tomorrow as a form of protest.

You can skate board to your glory hole shift.

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Posted by cokebottleag

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Posted on 11/17/17 at 12:07 am to upgrayedd

It probably isn't. I'd imagine either one of two things are happening:

- Canada is subsidizing oil

- the oil sands are being exploited because it would be more expensive to shut everything down than continue to produce.

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Posted by lostinbr

Baton Rouge, LA

Member since Oct 2017

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Posted on 11/17/17 at 7:08 am to cave canem

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You need to try google out once more and notice that DUC's would not cover 5% of the shortfall were we to stop importing.

It is almost like you skipped that part on purpose.

Or was it simply too dificult a concept for you to grasp?

Better check my post again. I’m talking about the affect of losing Keystone, not shutting down all imports. Pretty big difference there.

But if you want to go there.. yes, the US could survive if we were to stop importing from Canada. As I’ve said, we don’t use Canadian crude because we need it. We use it because it’s cheap and they have nowhere else to send it. As I have also said, whatever benefit the US refiners receive from access to that crude is offset by the affect of lower oil prices on US production.

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Posted by Homesick Tiger

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Posted on 11/17/17 at 7:16 am to EthanL