Have you heard about the production of oil from sand in Alberta, Canada? No, I am not making this up!
ksl-tv in Utah reports on this -
In fact, the Alberta oil sands have now vaulted Canada into second place in proven oil reserves, just behind Saudi Arabia. Trucks are hauling away sand that's naturally black with petroleum. Each truckload contains 200 barrels of oil
A search on yahoo found two other links about this. One is at Wikipedia.org and is about the Athabasca Oil Sands, large deposits of tar sands, in north-western Canada.
A third article explains in detail how the oil is refined from the sand and can be read online at mechanical engineering magazine.org - Oil sand kicks into high gear
It appears that we may soon try to do the same thing in Utah. Maybe someday we will be able to tell Saudi Arabia, and all the other countries, to keep their oil.
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