Mixing Oil and Water

In Kern County California, scarce clean water is being turned to steam in order to get increasingly heavy oil out of the ground.

Tar sands oil from northern Alberta is notoriously dirty and difficult to get out of the ground and refine. But California has its own thick and dirty oil, and as reporter Jeremy Miller tells host Bruce Gellerman, the state is turning scarce clean fresh water into steam to get that petroleum out of the ground.