Thanks Pat Fuller for exposing the tar sands!   Phyllis
U.S. won't find salvation in Canada's tar sands
If we think that a supply of tar sands oil from Canada will bring down
the cost of gas in the United States, we are sadly mistaken. Tar sands
oil will be sold on the world market to the highest bidder.

So far, we have not seen a disruption of oil supplies since the Middle
East revolutions. We have seen speculation on Wall Street, betting that
the price of oil will go up.

Americans conveniently only look at the dollar amount of a commodity -
never the true cost. One barrel of tar sands oil requires digging up four
tons of Earth, uses three barrels of water to extract and produces two to
three times the amount of global warming pollution. This does not count
the pollution created by refining oil in this country.
Nebraskans should at least have a say in the route of the pipeline. U.S.
Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska has stated the best route would avoid the
Sandhills and the underlying Ogallala Aquifer.

The aquifer provides 80 percent of the drinking water in Nebraska and 30
percent of irrigation water. Johanns states, "We have only one Ogallala
Aquifer, and we must take seriously our obligation to protect it."

-- Patricia Fuller, Council Bluffs

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