Whoa! Double output all the way! It's so intense!

Marathon Oil Corp. said yesterday that it hopes to more than double oil output from an Alberta oil sands project in the near future. Currently, Marathon, together with partners Shell and Chevron, produces about 155,000 barrels a day at the Athabasca oil sands project, a venture to extract a thick and high-sulfur crude from Canada's oil-rich sands. They have a plan to get more oil, and potentially more money, but there are also pollutants to consider. Of course there's carbon monoxide and all that horrible stuff, but they should also get rid of all the sulfur because once the crude oil, or one of its derivatives, is combusted in whatever machines need it, the sulfur will react with oxygen to produce sulfur dioxide (SO2), and once this reacts with trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or water vapour and atomic oxygen (H2O + O) in our atmosphere, this will constitute sulfuric acid (SO2 + H2O2 = SO2 + H2O + O = H2SO4), which is a major active component of acid rain. Think about that when filling up your tank.