AMERICA HAS NO SHORTAGE OF OIL!

Eco-Logic Powerhouse ^ | 15 Oct 04 | US House Committee on Resources

[TexasCowboy]

It appears that Canada is our biggest supplier with Mexico and Saudi running neck and neck.

One thing to remember is that Saudi Light cracks into more useable fuel than any crude on earth.

[Squantos]

So the saudi oil takes less refining ?

[TexasCowboy]

Hey, Tonk!
Good to see ya, pard!

The Termite took one look around that ol' rig, and he was ready to go to work!

[TexasCowboy]

When you go to the API site and it tells you what you get from a barrel of oil, that's an average .

Saudi Light cracks into fuel much easier than, say, Venezuelan Heavy, and it produces more fuel and less of the other components.

[Squantos]

LOL.........Like I said The Professional........:o)

Makes me think I'm talking to some oil wino who can taste what country the oil came from. Your knowledge of this stuff is a hoot TC !

Awesome !

[TexasCowboy]

LOL!
Thanks, Squantos.

Most babies got Pablum when I was a tyke. I nursed a bottle of West Texas Intermediate.

[Squantos]

ROTFLMAO !!! I've heard of you ! .......Old Greasy !


I just spent the day reading about the oil boom near Borger Texas . Talking about Phillips and the crime the boom brought to the little oil town ! One or two of the characters in the stories had to be named El Roy !

Stay safe Bro !

[Double Tap]

Good job TC. I could not have said it better myself.

One thing I think you missed, but maybe not, is drilling offshore of California and Florida. These two states need to box up their enviro-nuts and send them to CanaDuh and start makin' holes.

[TexasCowboy]

Anytime there's oil money the grifters will flock in like the buzzards after Custer's Last Stand.

I was in Rock Springs, Wyoming, about thirty years ago when the deep gas drilling boom hit about the same time as the hydroelectric plant at Point of Rocks.
There was a hooker for every parking meter, and they were all managed by the same guy.

He had a club that opened at midnight when all the rest shut down.
One night about two I heard a gunshot and saw a guy trying to fall dead, but it was too crowded. He died standing up!

[TexasCowboy]

"is drilling offshore of California and Florida."

Well, I had those in mind, DT.
We have so many places offshore that begs to be explored, and those two places come to mind first.

Those two states want to use the oil and gas produced offshore Louisiana and Texas, but they don't want those ugly old drilling rigs messing up their scenery!

[Squantos]

Died standing up ??

Yer not gettin oiled up with 90 proof are ya ?:o)

[TexasCowboy]

Nope! Honest Injun!

Everyone was trying to make a hole for him to fall, but there wasn't enough room!
Sardines have a lot more space than that bar did that night!

You would have gotten a kick out of Rock Springs in those days.
Everyone did what they were big enough to do.

[Squantos]

Sounds like an EOD Shop Bar !

Stay safe.........BTW aren't you supposed to be shooting today ?

[TexasCowboy]

Boy! I wish I could have been shooting!

I just got in from Mexico. I've been down there for three days getting some major dental work done.
I've got to go back and finish up Monday morning.

[Squantos]

In desert storm I had some dental work done in the back of a pickup truck bed in a lawn chair recliner. It was a traveling dentist and she and her assistant were working out of a pickup. I'd lost a filling three days earlier and was just about to pull the tooth with a leatherman when I was told she was in camp with her traveling medicine show !

If you were really tuff you'd let Eaker pull yer tooth !:o)

[TexasCowboy]

I don't want Eaker anywhere around!
If at all possible, I'd prefer not to have my teeth blown out of my mouth!

No, I had five root canals and a bunch of bridge work that would have cost me a fortune here.

(With a damn Leatherman??! Sheeeeeeesh! I ain't got that kind of cajones!)

Got to put it to bed, pard.
Take care!

[Squantos]

LOL.......We pack a little morphine in out kits TC......I ain't that crazy !

[capitan_refugio]

Offshore California has proven potential, and an existing, but aging, infrastructure. Though offshore oil production from California (and the adjacent Federal OCS) has been going on since the 1890's, the peak for discoveries in the 1950's (in state waters) and again in the late 1960's and 1970's (in Federal waters). There are a whole bunch of discoveries that have not been developed because of the political opposition from the state.

Florida does not have the discovery track record, and the eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area is all but locked up, politically. You won't see an oil well within 100 miles from the Florida Gulf coast if the Democrats have their way. Which is too bad for the rest of the country, because that planning area (sometimes called "MAFLA" for Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida) has the potential for "elephants" (huge prospects). I've mapped the area used CDP seismic - I know whereof I speak.

[ChefKeith]

YARK!!!!!!!!!

TMI- but I knew You would have the answer.

Thanks.

Still 29 "again" right?

[Casloy]

I believe our problem is a refining shortage and the fact it costs more to pump our oil than it does to import foreign oil. On the latter, doesn't it make more sense to buy imported oil and leave ours under the ground for a time when we either get cut off from foreign sources?