Drake oil well in Pennsylvania
Posted on 06/23/2005 12:17:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I wonder what he baited it with?
Cool.
Even better, Israel built itself up from nothing but the skills and hardwork of its people. They didn't have the crutch of petrodollars like all the Middle Eastern kleptocracies.
If they become energy independent now, well, good for them.
ZOG . . . ?
Juat wait. Soon as they find oil, the representatives of "the Palestinian peoples' struggle" will claim that the wells sit on ancestral Palestinian land that was stolen by the Jews. They will demand that Israel pull out and give up its "ill-gotten" gain back to the "Palestinian people."
yeah that and a load of American taxpayer cash
The guy's heart seems to be in the right place. I especially noted the source of his funding...If he was raising money from devout, but unsophisticated, churchgoers, I was going to cry Fraud. That doesn't seem to be the case. OTOH That part of the world has been gone over with a fine tooth comb over the last hundred years. If nobody has found substantial deposits of oil yet in Israel, it's probably because it's not there.
But maybe he'll prove the experts wrong. Good luck to him. I have to say the Israelis must be used to well-meaning, but slightly eccentric, Gentiles roaming around the countryside by now.
Well this certainly would change the equation now wouldn't it. hope he's right.
He may be a con artist, or simply deluded. Or maybe he's on to something. I'm not sufficiently up to speed on the petroleum geology of Israel to venture an opinion.
But if the article is correct, his financial backers seem to be of the type who can afford to make a speculative investment. A year from now we won't be reading articles about Christian pensioners who lost their life savings on a dry hole in Israel. That's something, at least.
The guy may be as mad as a Hatter, but he's certainly putting his money where his mouth is...
Good luck to him, and those that might benefit from his luck
"the Almighty father who shall bless thee, with ... blessings of the deep that lieth beneath ... the blessings of the everlasting hills, they shall be on the head of Joseph.."
There appears to be small deposits of 'potential' oil resources off the coast of Israel in the mediterranian basin indicated by airborne geophysics not the bible.
Oil is associated with sedementary basins. The only oil in Isreal proper is associated with this guy's promotional brochures.
My guess is that Zion Oil and Gas is a private company otherwise the FCC would have this guys ass in jail in a nano.
Show me one oil deposit in the world that was descovered in the 'hills' let alone the 'everlasting hills'.
Count on that one. And the U.N. will yelling the loudest.
Unless of course God makes it "there" at the appropriate time. Since he can turn water into wine, then sand to oil is not so hard.
I was in Israel a month ago for the first time. Israel is the most impressive place. The people have built a wonderful country from really nothing. I would recommend any American go and see Israel. At no time did we feel afraid.
The infrastructure is as good as any city here.
Drake oil well in Pennsylvania
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