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Originally Posted by AnnieA
Your thoughts, please ? Why not ?
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Resource Guide for Jobs on TAPS
There are more than 2000 people employed on the Trans Alaska Pipeline System. Alyeska Pipeline Service Company operates the pipeline and has over 800 employees. The rest of the work force are hired by contractors providing necessary work to operate, maintain and support the pipeline.
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TAPS Resources (http://www.alyeska-pipe.com/employment/TAPS%20Resources.asp - broken link)
It's a pipeline, not an assembly line. I just thought I'd clarify that for the ignorant and ill-informed.
Will it create 25,000 jobs? No, not all at once. Over a period of 6-9 years its possible that a total of 25,000 people might have worked from 3 months to 2-3 years on it. Maybe.
Canada needs two things, expanded port facilities and processing facilities.
For Canada, piping the oil to Texas where it can be processed and have the water and particulate matter and heavy metals like vanadium, chromium, uranium, nickel and mercury removed and then shipped elsewhere to be refined makes sense.
Only 16 of the 26 refineries in Texas produce gasoline. Valero runs West Texas Intermediate, Citgo runs Tijuana Light (Venezuela), Total (a French company) runs Bonny Light (Nigeria). Most of the refineries are petro-chemical, meaning The Extravagant American Life-Style. Gasoline is merely a by-product; and afterthought. Delek and Premcor run West Texas Sour, which doesn't have as much sulfur as East Texas Sour, but they are independent suppliers to like Swifty and other independent gasoline stations.
You can run heavy oil through a sour intermediate or sweet intermediate refinery any more than you can run light oil through sour intermediate or sweet intermediate refinery. It's a matter of physics.
The reason the US doesn't use heavy oil for gasoline, is because you only get 6 gallons out of a 42 gallon barrel (9 gallons if you pay the extra price and take the time squeeze out 3 more gallons). If you're operating a refinery to produce gasoline, then common sense says you run intermediate or light, because you get double to quadruple the amount of gasoline for the same price/cost to run the refinery.
The oil pipeline is not necessary for America. It's a lot of "eminent domain" for no good reason.
That's why not...
Mircea
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Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal
Yet Obama would rather have us dependent upon oil from the Middle East region than our bordering ally Canada?
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That would be grotesque ignorance, except this has all been explained to you before, so it would have to be willful ignorance, which falls in the realm of propaganda and disinformation.
Tar sands oils are by definition very heavy to heavy oils (bordering on tar). If you want to make The Pill, as in the original birth control pill, then great. But if you want The Patch for birth control, or you want the new one you only take once a month, or once a week, or if you want Lipitor, Claritin, Valtrex or any of your pharmaceutical drugs that were introduced to the market since 1994 then...
...you will use imported foreign light sweet (low sulfur) crude oil, or you will do without them.
Don't blame me, blame god or the dinosaurs for not crapping and dying in the right places, or blame the pterodactyls for not crapping plant seeds in the right places.
If you want Tide liquid laundry detergent, or any liquid laundry detergent, then you will import light oil from Venezuela, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, and when they run out, you'll import it from Central Asia, and when they run out, you'll import it from eastern Russia.
Liquid laundry detergents require Neodol-65 or Neodol-67, an organic alcohol made exclusively from light oil (and you don't have any) and you also need triethanolomine (the active soil release agent) which is made exclusively from light oil.
It's a matter of organic chemistry.
When you are ready to step back into the late 1960s/early 1970s and give up your body washes and liquid laundry detergents and all the drugs that have come on the market since 1994 and all of your frozen foods and ready-to-eat foods and all the beautiful colors and hues in your clothing then go right ahead -- that is the only way to free yourself of foreign oil.
Or you can do the 300 Million-man swim and take over the Middle East.
Until then, you are dependent on foreign imported light sweet (low sulfur) crude oil until the universe grinds to a halt.
Chemically speaking organically...
Mircea
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