re: You seem to write off Oil Sands pretty quickly
"I have read from some pretty well respected geo types that Oil Sands are viable and very plentiful"
Then you should probably go with them, I am just a n00b here. Out of curiosity, can you point me at the sources?
Here is what I understand currently: Oil Sands are very plentiful- there is maybe as much Heavy Crude in the canadian Tar Sands as there was crude in general in the Mid East oil fields (thats the most optimistic estimate I have read)- if they could be extracted it could buy us probably a decade or even two. But from what I understand they are dirty (like coal), and difficult to extract (its a mining operation, with tailings and transportation issues).
Davin L.