Posted on 12/17/2013 4:53:57 AM PST by thackney
It matters not; no human enterprise continues without end.
Sorry if the conversation wasn’t clear to you. We were talking about years not centuries or geoligical eons.
It’s a renewable resource, it will continue as long as we want it. There’s no shortage of the stuff, anything else and people are lying. Maybe demand tapers off, but for shortages that’s a big negative.
there were no internationals involved
Again, you are confusing oil production companies with well service companies.
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exxon is heavily into downstream operations like refining but they only bought an upstream driller xto in 2010
I am talking about the companies the producers hire to do much of the hydraulic fracturing work. These are not companies that own oil wells.
Companies like Halliburton, Schlumberger, Weatherford, etc. That is where most of the expertise exists and these companies already work internationally.
Hopefully it will be just enough to get us to the point where other energy tech will be mature and won’t leave us venerable.
Yup and the Maverick, brand new.
So the growth rate would flatten out ( maybe, maybe not ), but actual production would still remain healthy ?
Those OCTOPAD oil rigs just give me the warm fuzzies.... love it, productive production.
They had lots of minivans back then.
In 1975? Not in my neck of the woods.
There’s always the envy factor but most of the new production is from private land so the US government can butt out.
See the chart in post #60
>> mini-vans <<
Well, they started making them in the late forties and continued to this very day.
Then in about 1960, the Econoline appeared on the scene with a 144 CID L6 (2.4L) engine, along with the Chevy Greenbriar with the air-cooled H6 rear engine setup.
Then all hell broke loose and everyone got in on the act.
>> Not in my neck of the woods. <<
What, they don’t have car dealerships where you live?
Did we have car dealerships? Yes
Were the lots full of minivans and SUV’s?. No
Were minivans available in 1975? Sort of - Although the actual term ‘Minivan’ was not widely used until 1984.
Were they widely marketed, or have more than a minimalistic market share? No. Not before 1984.
You’ve got to love the internet - one off-handed comment on how we used to travel in much more cramped quarters is almost guaranteed to draw a know it all comment on the history of minivans. I assure you, I was not living in a parallel universe in 1974, where were the only people who did not own a minivan...most people had a car or a station wagon, a few suburbans were around, some had full sized vans....but no, everybody in the neighborhood most certainly did not own a Chevy Greenbriar (sic).
No, a lot of them owned a VW bus however.
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