To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Damn straight, we have more oil than OPEC!
Tangent: Now, is there some correlation between these oozy globs they’ve been seeing in the ocean and the untapped oil? I kind of wonder. If we drilled, might they cease? Hmmm? Me wonders....
To: swatbuznik
3 posted on
10/11/2009 5:40:08 PM PDT by
Halfmanhalfamazing
( The War on toilet paper : What if an environmentalist mistakenly used poison ivy ?)
To: swatbuznik
“I kind of wonder. If we drilled, might they cease? Hmmm? Me wonders....”
When I was a kid you couldn’t go to any beach in So. California without getting covered with tar.
The only reason that it isn’t there today is the oil wells in the Santa Barbara Channel, the Long Beach oil island and the oil platfoem at Seal Beach.
Even up into the 50s there was an oil slick from the horseshoe kelp to the mexican border.
There is still oil boiling up but not in the thousnads of barrels per day that it used to since the gas pressure has been reduced by the current wells..
17 posted on
10/11/2009 8:36:13 PM PDT by
dalereed
To: swatbuznik
Damn straight, we have more oil than OPEC!
Naah, it's more difficult than that. "Technically recoverable oil" is like 100% electricity from solar and wind. Or hydrogen fuel cell cars. It's sure doable even today, if you don't look at the costs. And it will be done in the future when demand is high enough.
But right now, in most cases, there are cheaper alternatives. So what really matters isn't "technically" but "economically recoverable oil" (Which I'm sure there's still plenty to find in Alaska or off the coast).
Why do so few people understand economics?
23 posted on
10/12/2009 3:53:34 AM PDT by
wolf78
(Inflation is a form of taxation, too. Cranky Libertarian - equal opportunity offender.)
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