Quote Originally Posted by gugi View Post
My favorite slogan along these lines was 'Get your gov hands off my Medicare!'.


It's not as simple. The cost of using your tar sands is pretty steep. That is if you factor in all the costs many of which are currently externalized. The numbers I saw were about $120/barel, so if the oil price drops below you loose money. The whole process was started with political deals and not a result of free market calculation of cost vs. benefit.
Oil sands crude sells right now on the open market and it makes a profit...at about $90 a barrel. I don't think any company will sell at a loss of $30 a barrel.

It really is that simple, just like any other business. The people with an interest in this would have you believe that its a lot more complicated