Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth

[presence]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YkwoRivP17A



...an area the size of Florida...

...toxic ponds big enough to be seen from space...

...threatening the word's 3rd largest watershed.

[klamath]

Yeaw we got to destroy oil production in our own backyard so we can stay dependent on the middle east and the human blood necessary to keep that open to us.:rolleyes:

[jbauer]

well....I'd like to know how they made this film? Did they use energy? The alternative to our energy uses is to dramatically cut back, something no one is willing to do.

[presence]

The alternative to our energy uses is []
http://www.jackherer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hemp-educate-yourself.jpg



Hemp fuel is a way out of oil!
Planting only 6 percent
of the continental United States with biomass crops such as hemp would supply

all current domestic demands

for oil and gas. Hemp fuel is a real alternative.
http://www.hempowered.com/hemp-fuel.html


Total Land Area:
65,750 sq miles Florida
3,794,000 sq miles USA


65750 / 3794000= 1.7%

1.7 / 6 = 28.333


So, planting Florida (or that same Florida sized chunk of Canada) with
hemp we would cover 28.3% of our total domestic oil needs

Which would be more than what:


Canada currently supplies
the U.S. with about 2.4 million barrels of oil per day, or
29 percent of its net oil imports.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/alberta_tar_sands_oil_boom_drives_push_for_norther n_pipeline/2596/