Oil Sands Or Tar Sands?

[dumpthemonarchy]

Unbeknownist to most of us, if you say "oil sands", you support the oil industry and the govt generally. If you say "tar sands" you are generally against it and an environmentalist. Words tell here. I go for tar sands.


CBC News - The National - Wendy Mesley - Can You Re-brand the Oil Sands

Can You Re-brand the Oil Sands

• April 21, 2010 1:38 PM |
• For decades, that massive patch of black gold in Alberta was known as the tar sands. But recently, things have changed. The term tar sands has been replaced by the term oil sands. But environmentalists are not giving up the tar without a fight. The word is central to their campaign against the development. So tonight we're asking: Can you re-brand the oil sands?

 

[Bar Sinister]

Actually given the actual substance being mined they should probably be called asphalt sands.

 

[Johnnny]

its all bitumen, and believe it or not the place was tarring back when the natives lived there and the frontiersmen found the place... Supposedly it waterproofed a canoe like no other...

The only thing that makes the whole process dirty, is the reckless use of freshwater

 

[JLM]

Unbeknownist to most of us, if you say "oil sands", you support the oil industry and the govt generally. If you say "tar sands" you are generally against it and an environmentalist. Words tell here. I go for tar sands.


CBC News - The National - Wendy Mesley - Can You Re-brand the Oil Sands

Can You Re-brand the Oil Sands

• April 21, 2010 1:38 PM |
• For decades, that massive patch of black gold in Alberta was known as the tar sands. But recently, things have changed. The term tar sands has been replaced by the term oil sands. But environmentalists are not giving up the tar without a fight. The word is central to their campaign against the development. So tonight we're asking: Can you re-brand the oil sands?

A rose by any other name is still a rose..............................Shakespeare

 

[Liberalman]

a lot of environmentalists own shares in the tar sands because it make them more money to fight the cause

 

[AnnaG]

Unbeknownist to most of us, if you say "oil sands", you support the oil industry and the govt generally. If you say "tar sands" you are generally against it and an environmentalist. Words tell here. I go for tar sands.


CBC News - The National - Wendy Mesley - Can You Re-brand the Oil Sands

Can You Re-brand the Oil Sands

• April 21, 2010 1:38 PM |
• For decades, that massive patch of black gold in Alberta was known as the tar sands. But recently, things have changed. The term tar sands has been replaced by the term oil sands. But environmentalists are not giving up the tar without a fight. The word is central to their campaign against the development. So tonight we're asking: Can you re-brand the oil sands?

Crock. They are closer to being tar sands than oil sands, not because of some goofy labeling, but because the goo isn't oil until it is refined.

 

[AnnaG]

Actually given the actual substance being mined they should probably be called asphalt sands.

Exactly.

 

[AnnaG]

a lot of environmentalists own shares in the tar sands because it make them more money to fight the cause

Irrelevant.

 

[Johnnny]

bitumen is the official term if you work outside the construction business

 

[AnnaG]

bitumen is the official term if you work outside the construction business

Politicians, accountants, shop clerks, bankers, mechanics, miners, refinery workers, homemakers, etc. all call it bitumen? So construction workers call it what?

 

[Johnnny]

bitumen is what it is, in the construction business its ashpalt... No one is calling it bitumen because 90% of the population never heard of it, so they call it something else to sell the story

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Bitumen is too hard to say, and too long. Even though that is what it is.

Tar when you think about it is much more negative. People in the past got tarred and feathered. Bad bad bad.

While getting all boozed up is getting well oiled. Getting oiled is just fine.

And now these tar sands are part of worldwide "oil" reserves, and they weren't a few years back. Calling rough dirt oil is a scam. It'll just make the peak oil hit a little bit worse because people now hear there's lots and lots of "new oil" in Canada. PR doesn't make it so.