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angrychair

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6. This article is bullshit

Reply to Wicked Blue (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 06:06 PM

Apr 2025

This pipeline carries Bitumen, a tar sands oil, one of the nastiest oils processed and a serious mess to clean up. The pipeline has to be heated in order for it to even flow.

Tar sands cannot be processed into gasoline so I fail to see how this impacts gas prices.

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