Date:         Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:29:47 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: oil out of concrete
Comments: To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
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And why not? After all, the bitumen used in road paving is oil,
essentially. Maybe all the bitumen surfaced roads in the country can now
be plowed up, the bitumen collected and put through some of the newer
cracking and refining processes and we would have a whole new oil
supply, albeit a limited one. Highways are not a renewable resource. The
roads could be resurfaced with concrete, once the bitumen was removed.

BTW, many ships used to use - and maybe some still do in this world -
use bunker oil for fuel in engines that had pistons the size of syrup
buckets and bigger. The bunker oil was almost like tar, and it was
preheated so it would flow and could be injected into the cylinders. If
bunker oil could be used as fuel, then why not bitumen, huh?

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Jim Felder wrote:

> I can see the headline now: "Senate opens US Interstate highways to
> exploration."
>
> Jim
>
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 7:56 PM, Loren Busch wrote:
>
>>  The subject on this thread is getting to my funny bone.  "Oil out of
>> Concrete"  You mean we don't have to drill in the dinosaur grave yards
>> anymore?
>>
>
>