The rise of Electric cars will make it very easy to wind down the oil sands.  Within about 10 years there will be enough electric cars on the road to cause a huge oil glut which will change into an ever decreasing need for oil. Tesla is about to ramp up to 400,000 cars a year while China is already producing that many.  Europe will follow with Audi BMW and Renault all offering a full line of electrics.   Meanwhile in the backwater of North America we will be asking what happened to all the jobs in the oil fields and the auto sector.