Oil is Dead: TransCanada asks U.S. to pause Keystone XL pipeline process

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Do you think electricity will reduce wear and tear and heating of moving parts?

Do you think there won't be a substitute lubricant for oil?

 

taxslave

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Just wait until they find out how many nuke plants are required to generate all the electricity required for their electric cars. If the environmental costs of electricity were taxed like carbon fuels are there would be zero electric cars on the road.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Of course he does. That is why he is against economic activity. ANyone thinking oil is dead has been drinking too much koolaid.
You always overplay your hand. It's too bad really, your positions are quite sound. It's the shrieking exaggeration that ruins them.
 

Walter

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The only reason TransCan is asking for a delay is that TransCan is hoping for a Repub to be in office in '17 because the current occupant of the Oval Orifice is an incompetent ideologue.
 

JLM

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Time for people to start realizing Oil is what we got and will have for the foreseeable future and we should be getting the most benefit out of it.

During WW11 the US Air force used hemp oil to lubricate their engines. There is no need for crude. Plastics are superior to crude, paper, clothing. all superior products and annually renewable. Dirty crude is a dinosaur of an industry and deserves to become extinct.

Crude oil happens to be our "meal ticket", Cliffy and before the "dinosaur" dies we better have another meal ticket to replace it.
 

petros

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How high is gas in Vernon today? It was 112.9 when I passed through Friday.

During WW11 the US Air force used hemp oil to lubricate their engines. There is no need for crude. Plastics are superior to crude, paper, clothing. all superior products and annually renewable. Dirty crude is a dinosaur of an industry and deserves to become extinct.

No they didn't. Hemp oil is too thin and too waxy to take the heat.