Tar Sands. Really?

Because of our reliance, or should I say, “addiction” to oil, there is a new plan to extract all of the oil from the Tar Sands up in Canada.

To quote the Humongous, from The Road Warrior, "What a puny plan."

Sure, I suppose we could get oil out of those tar sands and pipe it down to the US so we could burn it as fuel.  Why not?

I remember in the 80s when someone spilled a powdered substance onto the floor of a public restroom, they would wipe it up with a damp fingertip, and rub it on their gums.  Isn't that kind of what we're doing?

Getting oil from tar sands is sort of like a heroin addict who can't find any heroin anywhere else, rendering the bodies of his dead heroin buddies for the content of herion in their bodies.  Sure, I guess it would work, but wouldn't it be better to address your addiction to heroin?