To: blackdog
Call me crazy but if oil comes from fossils, why do we drill in the ocean and gulf?
13 posted on
04/16/2011 3:58:34 PM PDT by
newfreep
(Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
To: newfreep
Call me crazy but if oil comes from fossils, why do we drill in the ocean and gulf?Oil tends to be found in geologic basins.
21 posted on
04/16/2011 4:36:08 PM PDT by
fso301
To: newfreep
Offshore drilling is done because no one owns the subsoil rights. Same reason for drilling on federal lands — no patchwork of private owners to haggle with just to drill one freakin’ well.
37 posted on
04/16/2011 5:27:48 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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