re: #154 freetoken

The big deal about a pipeline going into Alberta is to further the commercialization of the tar sands, the goo in which needs to be processed before it can be further processed into useful products (unless you just want pitch to seal holes in a back-to-the-neolithic boat-building scenario.)

People often hear that “oil is fungible” and think that means it’s all the same. It’s not. Grades of oil are fungible. Tar sands crude is basically shit. Beijing might be willing to burn it for energy, but then their air looks like this.