Quote Originally Posted by sniper7 View Post
I'd rather have the US increase jobs, find a way to counter the corrosion, the abrasiveness of the impurities in the oils...maybe better filtration at the input points to keep out the water and sediments and maybe build a refinery or two along the way for domestic production in the central US.

Why let others do the work and make the money when you can do it yourself right here at home?
Here's what dilbit is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbit

And here's some of the concerns:

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs...wift072312.pdf