#tarsands only make money because true public health and environement costs are deferred [externalized].

If the true costs of #tarsands were being paid, it would be an energy-losing enterprise, as well as money-losing.

Confirmed: Tar Sands Toxic Liquid Waste Contaminating Local Waterways – EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environmental Movement: "As tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C. yesterday to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, more evidence emerged that the public isn’t getting the full story of the environmental impacts of tar sands."