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Gold/Mining/Energy : Oil Sands and Related Stocks
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To: longdong_63 who wrote (6786)2/9/2006 8:54:11 AM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) of 25575
 
He says:

"Then, when you're done, the oil is very heavy and "sour" -- unlike the sweet, light crude oil of West Texas and Saudi Arabia -- so it is hard to transport by pipeline, and even then it can really only be used for diesel. And the plants are subject to a lot of hardships, such as the lack of skilled labor, the breakdown of the heavy machinery and a worldwide shortage of the sort of super-sized tires used by the mining "

I am getting tired of instant "experts" who don't know anything about what they are writing about. Syncrude can be made into anything that any other crude oil is made into, and in fact it's a premium product that sells for more than WTI.
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