Drilling For Time - Potentially rich lodes of gas and oil

Tampa Tribune ^ | June 26, 2005 | KEITH EPSTEIN kepstein@tampatrib.com

[joshhiggins]

Still, Princeton's Deffeyes says, ``Using the continental shelf or not, I worry for the world. I worry for our country. I worry for my grandchildren. Either way, sooner or later, they're going to inherit a very difficult situation.''

Oh woe is us. Were doomed, were all going to die. No matter what we do we're going to run out of oil someday, so why try.
What a Whiner!

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Drill, drill, drill !

[djf]

I would support coastal drilling only if a good chunk of the proceeds went towards developing an economical method of mining the Methyl Hydrates.

There is at least 1000 times more MH on the ocean floor than all the oil ever found, drilled, or will be found.

[R. Scott]

Drill, drill, drill !

And build some new refineries – from what I have been able to find out, we’re near max capacity with many closing down due to regulation.

[prion]

I don't get it. "It isn't enough to support us forever, so let's not bother"? That's like, "I won't bend down to pick up that hundred dollar bill because I couldn't live on it for long."

[Red Sea Swimmer]

There is heaps of energy supplies that we can use. God provided them for us to utilize to make the world a literal Ganeden.

Certain groups are controlling the supply and delivery. It's pretty easy to manipulate the supply and demand of a commodity these days with the power of capital, computers and brute fear and lies.

Just another day in the L'Ordine Nuovo.

P.S. Read Thomas Gold's "Deep Hot Biosphere".

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Excellent analogy.

[R. Scott]

It's pretty easy to manipulate the supply and demand of a commodity these days with the power of capital, computers and brute fear and lies.

Particularly (today) the brute fear and lies.

[ran15]

Even though the politicians are trying to shift blame for these problems like oil.. its them standing in the way like on the refinery issue. Companies want to refine in America, but the regulators not only are making it more costly they actually are outright stopping them.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

There are many sick and twisted tyrants in the corporate world.

[ran15]

If we buy 15-20 years that should be long enough for replacement technologies to come online.

[TruthFactor]

America has gone from a nation of "Can Do" to "Can't Do" thanks to socialism and feminism.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's there, it's ours and we need it.

Drill.

[R. Scott]

There are many sick and twisted tyrants in the corporate world, the political world, the environmental world, the media world …

[patriot_wes]

When I was in school they were telling us that petroleum came from layers and layers of compressed vegetation and remains of prehistoric animals. wacky!

[Red Sea Swimmer]

The abuse of true science has been going on since Adam was a boy.

[carlr]

If the base price of a gallon of gas goes up .50,think of the additional revenue to the state coffers in increased sales tax.
3.5 cents per gallon here in NY.
Few state and local governments want to see the price drop.They have quickly grown to depend on the revenue like they have with lottery and tobacco sales.

[Wonder Warthog]

"`Exploring off our coast,'' Elizabeth Dole, a Republican, says, ``would endanger North Carolina's booming tourism industry, a true economic engine for our state.''"

"Tin Lizzie" Dole---just another RINO. The REAL exploration and drilling off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama hasn't seemed to hinder "tourism" at all.

If oil can be safely drilled for in the North Sea--a far more "weather unfriendly" environment than any potential US offshore location, then drilling offshore in the US should be easy and quite safe.