DG-TA writes:

"The extracting part is maybe 7% of the problem. It's the burning part that accounts for about 90% of the remaining 93%, and that is not an oil sands problem."

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Both factors are a problem, though the coming elimination of burning will, by itself, eliminate extraction.

Oil is a needed product, for lubricants, plastics etc, but burning it is about the last thing that we should be doing with it.