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VIDEO COLUMN: A barrel of Western Canadian Select wouldn’t buy a Big Mac meal

You could get the burger, but not the fries and coke, when it bottomed
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A barrl of oil in these tanks near Maidstone wouldn't buy a Big Mac meal.

Pipeline News editor Brian Zinchuk tackles the implications of a barrel of Western Canadian Select, which makes up the majority of Canadian oil production, not being worth the cost of a Big Mac meal. You can make a lot from one barrel, too. This is a video version of a recent column on this topic.