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Re:Dakota Access Pipeline to win US Army permit for completion by JimboOmega on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:31PM (#13600157)
But more oil is used to transport the oil (in trucks/trains), so I think that increases CO2 usage overall.

Also higher prices mean more oil is exctracted - and sometimes more is used to do the extraction (IE, more marginal EROEI projects are undertaken)

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Re:Dakota Access Pipeline to win US Army permit for completion by Symmetry on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:50PM (#13601949)
It's higher profit for extracting that would mean that more oil would be extracted, not higher prices to the consumer. Higher transport prices decrease ROI.

You have a point about transport CO2 use but I'd expect that would use a small amount proportionally.

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