If only there was some way of getting candanian crude from the northern border down to the gulf refineries. Who knows, maybe some sort of pipeline?

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
If only there was some way of getting candanian crude from the northern border down to the gulf refineries. Who knows, maybe some sort of pipeline?
Quote from piezoe:
We should convert automobiles to run on Natural Gas as an interim measure while a National ELECTRIC high speed rail network is built that will be driven by a new generation of mid-size nuclear reactors.
The natural gas supply network is already in place, and there is plenty of natural gas.
Having dual fuel cars and trucks will create competition in the Gas/Petroleum industry and hold prices in check.
Build infrastructure, not bombs.
We should shelve the Keystone pipeline for now. It makes no sense from either an energy, jobs, or environmental standpoint.
Quote from rew:
The proposals for getting oil from algae all involve selecting specific species and strains that produce large amounts of lipids and then creating a monoculture of that algae in an artificial pond or even in plastic sacks in a greenhouse-like structure. Nobody is proposing harvesting the algae from ordinary ponds and lakes.
I think it will be a long, long time before we see any useful amount of oil produced this way. It won't be any cheaper than solar power (it is in fact a type of solar power) and solar power is expensive.