Reply #125: Yes, I think their claim was...

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that the Orinoco basin / Alberta tar sands was just one (combined) example of many.

Their article reads: "To pick just one example among many, finding costs are essentially zero for the 3.5 trillion barrels of oil that soak the clay in the Orinoco basin in Venezuela, and the Athabasca tar sands in Alberta, Canada. Yes, that's trillion -- over a century's worth of al supply, at the current 30-billion-barrel-a-year rate of consumption."

So even if their "century's worth" assertion is incorrect, they are suggesting that Orinoco basin / Alberta tar sands is "just one example among many". However, as far as I can see, this is the only example that they mention. If their claim of "one example among many" is correct, their argument may have more validity, but for some reason they do not mention any other examples, and maybe the Orinoco basin / Alberta tar sands is the "best" example they could find for their proposition?

As Pigwidgeon remarked: "The book should be subject to wide scrutiny. If Huber and Mills are blowing smoke, they ought to be publically discredited; but if they are telling the truth, someone is doing a lot of teradollar lying."