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New technology better than fracking could vastly expand oil reserves
American Thinker ^ | December 6, 2016 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/31/2016 10:39:59 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: onedoug

I don’t think they have a poorhouse. They’ll just have to go sleep with the camels.


21 posted on 12/31/2016 11:38:04 AM PST by Tucker39 (In giving us The Christ, God gave us the ONE thing we desperately NEEDED; a Savior.)
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To: DesertRhino

We needed the Brits, they needed us.

We sided with the Soviets to win as well.

It was a close thing.


22 posted on 12/31/2016 11:42:51 AM PST by marktwain
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To: DesertRhino
Nope on the Suez. We lost enough people in WWII trying to preserve the colonial possessions of the Brits rather than going for the fastest possible kill of the third reich.
How so?

23 posted on 12/31/2016 11:56:32 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: Carthego delenda est

And what about the microwaves that escape from the ground and the microwaves in our gasoline? Pretty dangerous, if you ask me. Catalytically cracked microwaves are particularly dangerous and nothing to laugh at.


24 posted on 12/31/2016 12:02:46 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: Ozark Tom

It’s all a matter of lowering crude viscosity to enhance flow. Imagine what it can do in Venezuela with its tar-like crude.


25 posted on 12/31/2016 12:07:32 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: onedoug
I hope we can drive these mid-east bastards to the poorhouse.

Why drive them? Tell the goat f**kers to get on their camels and get lost!

26 posted on 12/31/2016 12:10:08 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Peak Oil gets pushed back another hundred years.


27 posted on 12/31/2016 12:13:47 PM PST by glorgau
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To: glorgau

More like 400 to 600. And in that timespan we’ll develop technologies unimagined now. Plus, I believe that oil is abiotic.


28 posted on 12/31/2016 12:16:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t wait to hear the fits the enviro-luddites will have over this.

If it makes money they hate it. Unless it’s phones or computers.


29 posted on 12/31/2016 12:17:53 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: usconservative

Let me tell you about Ahab the Arab
The sheik of the burning sand
He had emeralds and rubies just drippin’ off ‘a him
And a ring on every finger of his hand
He wore a big ol’ turban wrapped around his head
And a scimitar by his side
And, every evenin’, about midnight
He’d jump on his camel named Clyde, and ride


30 posted on 12/31/2016 12:38:47 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
and appease environmentalists

No. That will rather, infuriate the enviros exponentially. Any energy production is anathema. If they were rational about desiring safety and minimizing pollution they would be pushing thorium nuclear reactors but they are even more hysterical about them than about the reactors we have because they are safe and non polluting.

31 posted on 12/31/2016 12:39:41 PM PST by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Generating the power for microwaves seems like a net negative, unless they have really cheap power.


32 posted on 12/31/2016 1:05:12 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: Mr. Blond

Depends on how much electricity is needed versus how much oil is extracted.


33 posted on 12/31/2016 1:07:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” and appease environmentalists while they’re at it.”

LOL. That will never happen. They are against any and all forms of energy that are cost-effective and practical. They will make up reasons to oppose any new way to extract fossil fuels.


34 posted on 12/31/2016 1:16:23 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t like it. It would kill the offshore drilling industry, and take a large part of our Merchant Marine with it.


35 posted on 12/31/2016 1:20:10 PM PST by Boatperson83 (Enemies of the Jones Act are Enemies of America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shades of Atlas Shrugged.


36 posted on 12/31/2016 1:59:57 PM PST by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: 353FMG

Earthworms live close to the surface and they need air to survive. This technology will be used deep down. I don’t see a problem.


37 posted on 12/31/2016 2:56:22 PM PST by Trumpnado2016 (It's time for America to dream again.)
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To: Parley Baer
“and appease environmentalists while they’re at it.”
Never going to happen. For most greenies it is the downfall of the USA that they are after.

Indeed. They will find SOMETHING that the microwaves disturb - bird migration, mating habits of wild animals (maybe even humans :-) ). ANYTHING to stop America from advancing the welfare of its people.

38 posted on 12/31/2016 4:24:55 PM PST by Oatka
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“..energy revolution than fracking — and appease environmentalists while they’re at it....”

Since the goal of Environmentalism is control over your life, this energy revolution will not appease the environmentalists.


39 posted on 12/31/2016 4:29:17 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: usconservative

Just my opinion but the only reason the middle eastern wing of opec is in existence is so they can kick back to western elites.
A money laundering scheme at best set up by the elites.


40 posted on 12/31/2016 4:35:08 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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