According to the oil industry, tar sands oil is oil when the oil industry
needs oil spill cleanup funds, but it isn't oil when it comes to paying for that cleanup fund.
Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that
needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude
oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the
oil spill cleanup fund.