refineries in texas. and so for people to perpetrate that myth is just an untruth. perhaps, john, the biggest concern is something that was underscored in this study that was released in canada saying that canada found toxins are likely seeping into groundwater from oil sands so how can we trust to the oil industry will keep it clean while doing business? there are always risks with hydro carbons but we have 200,000 miles of oil products pipelines in the country today, 25,000 of which reside on top of the owigalala aquifer. they work. they can break, they can be fixed, but they work. they create the economic prosperity and the transportation system that s the envy of the world in these united states and i think we need to provide that for future generations as well, 20, 30, 40 years into the future.
nonreplenishing aquifers which we cannot risk when we have unprecedented droughts and wildfires and crop losses in the breadbasket of our country. the owigalala aquifer serves as drinking water and it will go through further aquifers along the way. there are so many issues, these aren t the only two issues this is a pipeline that s going through america, not to america. we re already processing some of that oil in oklahoma like you said. but the reason they want to get it to the gulf is so they can get it as you said to the global market. and they can t get to to the global market the easiest way, through their country, through to the pacific through the enbridge line because their citizens have stopped it. let me show my viewers what we re talking about here. this is the oil sands over here. and when you make it into the bitumen. i showed you the sticky substance, it becomes this. once it s refined from there to here, it becomes something like