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Gold/Mining/Energy : Big Dog's Boom Boom Room
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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (138503)8/1/2010 1:15:17 PM
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That was five years ago. Mitchell was just starting to prove the effectiveness of fracking in the Barnett Shale. Natural gas was looking increasingly scarce and expensive.

I'm going to wait a while before I join the "Simmons is a kook" celebration.

But the cheap gas sure does make the tar sands look better and better. Incidentally, the gas is not just used to make steam; it chemically converts the longer chain parafins to something with the viscosity of crude.
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