Re: OT: Anyone have comment on the 60-Minute story about "oil sands" in Canada


"Wayne.B" <waynebatrecdotboats@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:22:23 GMT, "Calif Bill"
> <bmckeespam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>And that is the rest of the story. Figure out a way to economically
>>recover
>>the oil, and you will be richer than Bill Gates.
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> Economical is relative to other alternatives. You can get to
> economical by improving extraction efficiency, or you can get there by
> doing nothing as the cost from conventional sources rise.
>
> We are on our way to door number two.
>

No economical is figuring out a cheaper way to do it. Economics' dictate
whether they are economically viable to extract at higher costs.


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