Posted on 07/05/2009 7:25:56 AM PDT by Patriot1259
Thirty thousand scientists and NASA say Global warming is a farce! So, why are we not drilling for our own oil here in the USA? Why are we shutting down the coal mining, putting people out of jobs? Who wants to drive one of those little cars around all the BIG trucks on the roads? Not me. It won’t happen...been there, done that, and lived to tell about it.
Americans are being scammed!
(Excerpt) Read more at thecypresstimes.com ...
The continue “gentrification” of America’s natural resources.
“Americans are being scammed!”
Yup. But they sure like it. (Especially when evil energy company profits are going to be re-distributed.)
IMHO
“The U.S.A. is sitting on 2 trillion barrels of oil!”
So what! Oil is dirty, oil companies are evil, there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the polar bears need to be protected!
/S/
IMHO
WOW! Somebody gets it!
We need to drill our own reserves. We do not have to be dependent on foreign oil. We could drill our own, but a very small percentage of the population will not allow it. Who is the domestic terrorist?
It's far worse than that. We're being taken over.
2 Trillion; 2 Billion. What’s a 1000-fold inaccuracy when reporting news.
The Bakken oil field is a big story, and worthy of serious discussion, which is precisely why this kind of misinformation is poisonous; it makes those who cite it come off as idiots.
Suggest you compare this article to Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/bakken.asp
I’m all for drilling here and drilling now. That said, we need to encourage all sorts of energy production and let the market work things out.
‘Suggest you compare this article to Snopes.’
And Snopes wouldn’t have any interest in furthering leftist energy policy,would it?
Well I don’t, but it seems to me he accurately described Bakken to a T and then he went on to describe the green river formation which holds an estimated 1.5 trillion barrels of oil. However what he failed to describe is that it’s not really oil but oil shale and it is not easily recoverable and it takes a lot of water to extract, a resource not exactly plenty in that part of the US. So adding the 503 billion from Bakken and the 1.5 trillion from the Green River Formation he gets 2 trillion. Of course likely only 10-20% of Bakken is recoverable and until we find a better way to extract the oil shale it will just sit there.
Snopes is only quoting the US Geological Survey, which has quite a different number when it comes to sizing this oil reserve. Time and technology will change that, as will drilling experience. I don’t much care for AGWers and I’m all for producing our own energy, but let’s not go conspiratorial. There are plenty of bad reasons behind our current energy situation. Let’s deal with them. Like locking down drilling in large fractions of our country. Like subsidizing ethanol to buy Iowa votes (among others). And so on.
Yep. Orders of magnitude errors do not help us.
We can't. The coal, oil and energy reserves we have will go to the Chinese when the dollar collapses, collateral for gov't debt.
I hear you.It’s getting tough to find out who you can trust. I’m against ethanol subsidies,too. If it’s so great ,let it compete heads up on the open market. Don’t tell that to a lot of farmers here in Illannoy, though,it seems they don’t mind being led what to plant by big gubmint.
The total is illusive because there’s a difference between recoverable oil and not plus not all of Bakken has been surveyed yet, as far as I understand it. New techniques were coming out during the Bush presidency but today O&G companies are cutting back on R&D as well as exploration because of the Democrats attack on their industry. Same thing is true off-shore. California has a ton of oil off-shore but refuses to allow drilling.
The Colorado O&G Commission has new rules too (Democrats, of course) and drilling here has dropped to reflect that.
It’s just a fact. Democrats oppose US energy independence while chasing the windmills in their fantasy world.
This is where Sarah Palin as Governor of Alaska could have opened areas to drilling.
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