Chief supplier of energy needs for US not Middle East but Canada

Leaving the new source fracking for gas aside, contrary to popular belief, the chief supplier of US energy needs isn’t a Middle Eastern theocracy with ready access to bottomless pools of South Asian slave workers. It is Canada, where the largest oil deposits are locked up in the ‘tar sands’ of Alberta.


Extracting crude oil from sodden soil has proved so grossly inefficient and environmentally destructive a process that it promises to keep oil prices climbing.