...but they'll just "fudge" the numbers on the GHG life-cycle or contend that it isn't an "alternative" fuel.  One way or another, they'll try and find a way around it.

...instead of getting oil from a stable republic next door with a resource that will last at least 500 to 1000 years, we should go halfway around the world and import it by ship over the oceans while pouring billions of dollars into a region controlled by terrorists and apostates.

Brilliant.

Grist,

Could you be a little more condescending when you speak of Canucks, please? We are so darn cute, we get all in a tizzy when people, especially 'mericans, treat us with too much respect.

Oh, and could you also consider putting out a print publication? As most of us live in igloos, we have no access to Internet. However, we are willing to make the big trudge over to the big communal igloo to pick up our mail, which arrives once a month. If we found some Grist in our mailboxes, we would be just tickled pink.

God save the Queen!
Taimei.

When they get done destroying northern Alberta to extract this oil, an area the size of Florida will be a wasteland.
It is currently full speed ahead in the tar sands since global warming does not seem to be a concern for the developers--who happen to hail from all over the planet.
Go to pembinainstitute.org for the complete story.

sorry, it's pembina.org

is Canadian.  Well, William Shatner is, at least.  And he has always been mighty cute, in one bodily form or another.

And then, there was that positively scrumptious lad who did the red-bloodedly anti-USA Molson's ad, it seems a lifetime ago.

Canada is the #1 foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S.  However, I don't know why Canada is so anxious to maximize crude oil exports to the U.S.  With prices heading inexorably upward, the oilsands resource will be worth far more 5, 10, 25, 50 years from now.  As a proud Canadian, I suggest that we throttle back a tad and pay much more attention to the adverse environmental impact of oilsands projects.

...they're not willin' to wait that long for it.  And besides, they're afraid of what the market conditions might be 50 years from now...what with Wall Street and all of lower Manhattan literally under water as a possibility, the economic outlook might not be so good.