On 19/08/10 9:19 AM, DevilsPGD wrote:
In RoddNSue
was claimed to have wrote:

The international campaign to disourage travellers from visiting
Alberta Canada is now advising potential tourists in London England.

Pictures of the terrible situation at the Alberta oilsands are but
part of the foul picture.

Speaking as a native Albertan, I can assure you that us Albertans would
rather have the oil sands than tourist dollars from idiots whining about
fossil fuels while supporting us with your dollars.

Free clue: if you're not a fossil fuel consumer, you're not going to be
a tourist anyway.

Seriously, where would you like to get the oil? From the middle east?
Maybe of the Gulf of Mexico? Tanker it in from Alaska?

Alberta is a great place to visit. Banff, Jasper, and of course the
Royal Tyrrell Museum near Drumheller.

Never been to Edmonton, as I could care less about the largest mall in
North America.

Still, extracting oil from the oil sands has got to be the most insane
way to obtain low quality oil at tremendous costs both for the fuel
itself, and for the environment. If the producer nations of high quality
crude would come to their senses, and do what's best for their own long
term economic interests, oil would be priced at a level where the oil
sands would be abandoned, around $50 a barrel.