Posted on 02/11/2017 1:26:30 PM PST by HarleyLady27
The significance of the small footprint of oil and gas goes far beyond Anwar.
In 1910, it took 83 million acres of US farmland to feed the horses used for transportation.
But in 2005, only 16 million acres were devoted to all energy production. Even adding in the 27 million acres for all roads and highways, the total is only 43 million acres.
So we use much less land today for energy and transportation, than 100 years ago just to feed the horses.
(Stats from “The Bottomless Well” by Peter Huber and Mark Mills)
BLM sold drilling rights on 278 parcels of public land for $129.3 million. Bids ranged from $2 per acre to $16,500 per acre.
Dang ~~~~ Thought we were gonna get CONTINUING ROYALTYS>>FOREVER OR TIL THE WELL RAN DRY..
Only if we discover sizable amounts of oil and/or gas in these tracts
The global warming/environmental movement is perhaps the biggest Communist front group in US history.
(I put “perhaps” because maybe you could make an argument for the civil rights movement in all its phases.)
cough cough. Entertainment & news industry ie. media?
Good one!
It’s had a massive impact and leftist bent.
I guess I didn’t consider it with the other groups because of the media’s diffuseness and lack of a specific area of focus.
But I can see HUAC considering it a front group.
Just to return to the term “Communist front group”:
I overuse it because I love it so much, hearkening back as it does to the happier days of HUAC, Joe McCarthy, and those terrific film-noirish shows about Communist subversion (e.g., the radio show “I Was a Communist for the FBI” with Dana Andrews. You could always tell a Commie because he called you “comrade”!)
Strictly speaking, I think a Communist front group would be a specific organization ostensibly organized for a public service purpose, but in reality controlled and directed by Communists or their sympathizers, whose real aim was to overthrow the Constitution and capitalism.
So Greenpeace could be a Communist front group under that definition, but the whole global warming movement wouldn’t.
Still, I can’t help myself from applying the term as broadly as possible!
Who bought the rights? Anyone know?
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