Cynically, given their avowed enthusiasm for cutting taxes, the Republicans in Congress are threatening to sabotage extension of the payroll tax cut by linking it to an entirely unrelated matter approval for a new pipeline bringing oil from Canada's tar sands to Texas's refineries.
And alternative sources of oil Canada's tar sands, Africa's deepwater reserves are nearer than many think: Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a think-tank, predicts that these and other developments will provide some 6m-7.5m bpd more capacity than the world needs by the end of the decade.
High oil prices already have sparked a boom in Canada's tar sands business.
The Quapaw Tribe has the honor of having the largest Superfund site in the United States -- it's Tar Creek Superfund site.
So even if the credit crunch eases and the oil price steadies, Canada's tar sands may face tougher scrutiny from their main customer.
Unconventional sources of oil and gas that are set for further exploitation include Canada's tar sands, shale and coal-bed methane deposits around the world.
Separately, Canadian oil company TransCanada has proposed building a 1, 700-mile (2, 735km) pipeline called Keystone XL to carry crude from Alberta, Canada's tar sands region to refineries in Texas.
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The company is spending billions and hiring thousands to upgrade its remaining "northern tier" refineries in Indiana, Ohio and Washington state to handle a gush of heavy crude from Canada's tar sands.
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That day will mark a new crest in the rising tide of public demand for action, beginning with a definitive rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline that would enable the exploitation and export of Canada's tar sands oil.
It issued a press release in January trumpeting new technology that cheaply upgrades the kind of heavy oil found in Venezuela and mined out of Canada's tar sands with rapid applications of heat using sand as the heat carrier.
Cluley said Thursday's attacks started with a spamming campaign, called a "joejob, " which is designed to tar a victim's online reputation by appearing to be the source of a wave of spam.
The other probable winners are the Canadian producers from that country's extensive tar sands which, at even half present crude prices, are profitable to exploit.
"Today's Day of Action is in solidarity with local landowners struggling to protect their water and land from TransCanada's toxic tar sands pipeline, " the protest group said in a written statement Monday.
But it's what the Tar Heels were able to do with that money that makes them the most valuable team.
While some beaches contain remnants of the spill (Louisiana's Elmer Island still has tar balls), any oil that does wash ashore is quickly removed by BP crews.
North Carolina State and Wake Forest, whose profit was halved last year, prove once more that when it comes generating green in the Old North State, there's simply no substitute for Tar Heel blue.
Environmentalists dislike the project chiefly because it would increase America's imports of oil from the tar sands of Alberta.
As tar balls floated ashore onto the Panhandle's white sands during the weekend, some anglers blamed their bad fishing luck on the oil.
New technologies allow for the vast development of the Athabasca tar sands in Alberta, helping make Canada's oil reserves the world's second largest.
North Carolina State's loss at Florida State meant the Tar Heels would be the No. 3 seed but could still tie Duke for second in the standings.
But while the pine-tar controversy was unusual, the circumstances of Brett's home run that day were not.
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For example, if Canadian jobs are being created to export oil to China while Canadians themselves consume some other form of energy, that's still a net increase in employment from tar sands.
One fatal overdose occurred in June 2010 at Forward Operating Base Blessing, after a soldier asked another soldier to buy black tar opium from a local Afghan outside the base's entry control point.
The sample also contained more Duke wins than losses and an extra Duke home game, plus two phenomenal Duke performances in Kelly's 36-point explosion Saturday and last season's Austin Rivers buzzer-beater against the Tar Heels.
While voter turnout in the District is projected to be fairly low on a percentage basis, elections officials in North Carolina say they have detected a renewed interest in that state's primary prior to the Tuesday opening of Tar Heel State polling places.
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If completed, it would transport tar sands mined in Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Instead, it turned into a reversal of last year's finale at Cameron Indoor Stadium, where the Tar Heels jumped all over the Blue Devils early in a blowout win.
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