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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

American Big City Mayors don’t want Canadian gasoline

Canada Free Press, June 30, 2008 - “Today I heard various media reports that the mayors of many American cities want to boycott gasoline made from oil sands in Canada. This proves that ignorance is bliss.  All oil from the Alberta oil sands is heavy crude and must be refined twice, first in a heavy crude upgrader then once again through another refinery process before that high quality oil can be made into light products such as gasoline. After the final refining of the upgraded oil is complete, the resulting light oil is of the highest grade and therefore the best quality and has the least impurities compared to normal oil taken from conventional oil wells.” Read more.

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