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What is the difference between oil sands and tar sands?

April 26, 2017difference Oil sands tar

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What is the difference between oil sands and tar sands?

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The difference is only the name. In the 1970s, the oil industry wanted to make the tar sands sound cleaner, so they created a campaign to rename them “oil sands” and focus on the fact that oil would be derived from them.

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they are both the same. i dont think there is a difference because in wikipedia they have the same page for both.