OK,  I need  confirmation on this  from our  friends  up  in Central Canada !!   
Yesterday, I was  at  a  Ham Radio Convention, in  SeaSide, Oregon.  ( a yearly event )  
    I  ran into a  fellow from  Calgary Canada ( An older fellow, as myself ).  The discussion  went to   Gas Price's !!!  ( much higher in Canada, he  tells me )     
    My point,  here,  he say's  a personnel friend of his  works for  one of the companies  extracting  Crude Oil,  in the  Oil sands area  up there.  ( North of Montana )    This fellow told him that the Cost of  extracting the  Crude  from the Shale Sands,  up there is  about  $25.00  a barrel,  when the  stuff  is ready for  shipping to  Refineries.     
   (( Of  course there is no pipe line,  so they send the stuff to  China ))     
  So,  can  any of  our  Canadian Friends,   here  confirm  what this fellow  told me. Being a  fellow  Ham  Radio  Operator,  I tend to believe him.  But,  you never know,  so  I'm looking for  any  confirmation here, as to the  cost of  crude  oil from  Centeral Canada ??:whistling: