Tar Sands

Tar Sands are awful.

Why? Read this.
         "making one barrel of oil in the sands generates two barrels of toxic waste"
         "two tons of sand to get a barrel of oil"
         "it emits three times more carbon than conventional oil"


How does this affect America?
They're building a pipeline to pipe the toxic sands from Canada to Texas.
If it leaks, it goes straight into the water supply. And that particular aquifer is used to water 1/3 of all American crops.


Here's an even more detailed site on the pipeline.