From: garyrayl70@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/6/2026 6:53 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   >   
   > We went out to dinner tonight. I invited Dan the Bagel   
   > Man to join us. I knew he was busy, it being a Tuesday,   
   > but it's January 6 so I told him it was in celebration   
   > of the anniversary of the Jan 6 MAGA revolution...   
   >   
   > Gotta poke the critters through the monkey bars, right?   
   >   
   > Here's the thing:   
   >   
   >   
   > So Dan thinks Venezuela is all about oil. Now, stupid   
   > me in another Tim Walz moment, I try to explain reality   
   > to him.   
   >   
   > "They don't have a lot of oil," I explained to him.   
   > "They have bitumen."   
   >   
   > Nope. The media beamed the "Largest proven reserves"   
   > lie into his skull and there's no budging it.   
   >   
   > None.   
   >   
   > Bitumen is not oil.   
   >   
   > Bitumen is tar or pitch. And it's usually in   
   > disarticulated chunks as it's found in Canada.   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment   
   >   
   > "Tar sands" or "Oil sands."   
   >   
   > The problem is that there's a MASSIVE energy overhead   
   > in exploiting bitumen. It's so large, in fact, that many   
   > in the past have argued that it requires more energy to   
   > turn bitumen into a liquid fuel than we can get energy   
   > out of it.   
   >   
   > Yes, many claim that, if we used oil say, we'd need   
   > more gallons of oil to covert the bitumen to oil than   
   > we'd get back as oil.   
   >   
   > True? Not true? In reality it's "Depends."   
   >   
   > NOTE:  Everyone new about the Canadian deposits for at   
   > least 100 years, but it just plain wasn't economically   
   > plausible to exploit it except in very small amounts.   
   >   
   > None of this registered with Dan the Bagel Man. Even   
   > inviting him to just plain Google it.   
   >   
   > Nope.   
   >   
   > The media orders people to believe that Venezuela has   
   > the largest proven oil reserves and people believe it.   
   >   
   >   
   > FACT:  If Bitumen is oil than so is coal. Which means   
   > that the United States has the largest proven reserves   
   > on the planet.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Venezuela has the largest theoretical oil reserves if   
   the exorbitant costs of extraction and processing bitumen   
   could be overcome, yet in a desperate future scenario, it   
   could be the last oil fields left...if Donald's "drill,   
   baby, drill" philosophy pans out to its stupidest point.   
   That is why whoever can make the planet's EMF into energy   
   to power air, land and sea vehicles, provide electricity,   
   etc., will be possibly the greatest genius of technology.   
   It'd clean up this planet, and end any chance of fuel wars.   
   It'd be universally available to all free. Free!? Oh, that's   
   no good for capitalists!!   
   Cleaner environment and virtually free energy - eh, nah,   
   the corporate beehive's agenda and mindset won't get   
   wrapped around either.   
   @y+   
   `o`   
      
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