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The Trillion-Barrel Tar Pit
An anonymous reader writes "The latest issue of Wired has an interesting article about Canadian tar pits that could result in a trillion barrels of oil when processed. It seems just when we think the oil will run out we find new reserves. Now excuse me while I gas up my Hummer."
If they drain all the oil out of the tar pits, it'll really mess up the plot for that episode of Futurama.
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
I learned about this years again in grade 10 geography class. We canadians have 70% of the world's drinking water too. Bow down and worship us Americans!
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Er wait
I mean, please don't invade us
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I support spreading santorum
On /. a reference to 'tarpit' usually means something other than the type that holds oil, or at least petrochemicals.
/. sense.
/. tarpit swallows evil packets. If that fine a selection on stiffness/surface tension is too hard, how about making it the road to a gas station, "Cheap Gas - $1.50/gal - minimum purchase 20 gallons!"
Accept for a moment, the premise that hummers (and other gas-guzzlers) are generally undesirable, and then put that together with 'tarpit' in the normal
We need to replace a stretch of road with a tarpit that'll look like a road, and be sufficiently stiff to support lighter vehicles, but swallow hummers and SUVs - like a
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Canada as leader of OPEC :).
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Cause the minute you are worth something guess where the next couple of states are coming from?
The Prime Minister of this so-called nation flies in a government-jet with the word "LIBERAL" in five-foot-high RED letters!
How long can the United States endure this antagonism to the world's freedom?
51 States Now! -plus Israel, U.K. and Puerto Rico, maybe Iraq.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Now we'll have to start taking them seriously.
Liberty uber alles.