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The Trillion-Barrel Tar Pit

Posted by timothy on from the gas-is-awesome dept.

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."

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  1. just a thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The reason that the governments of industrialized nations try so hard to acquire oil is that they want to use it all up so the 4 billion people in developing countries never develop enough to compete. 30 years from now, they want to be sure that the poor are still poor.