Alberta sands

by Rhiannon

“Grandpa, did you really do that?”


“Do ‘what’, Lucy?”


“Did you take natural gas from the Arctic down to Alberta to 
boil water to make steam to melt tar out of the oil sands, then
 use more natural gas to produce hydrogen to make the tar
 molecules into gasoline so North Americans could drive four 
tonne vehicles five kilometers to sports clubs to spend fifteen 
minutes riding stationary bikes; did you really do that, 
Grandpa?”

…
“Ahhhh…, yes, Lucy, I am afraid we did.”