Drill Here: America's Untapped Oil And Gas Reserves

Forbes ^ | 4/20/2010 | Christopher Helman

[phockthis]

but telling the Saudies that we are going to drill for our own oil will force them to drop their prices..

Look how far the price dropped in early 2009...

[Sherman Logan]

Look how far the price dropped in early 2009...

Primarily driven by a drastic drop in demand, something outside OPEC's control or even influence.

[phockthis]

That and the speculators on wall street...

Same will happen if they think that there will be an abundance of oil on the market...

[SunkenCiv]

biafra (sidebar, it's also about oil)

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin!

[TLI]

If fully developed, it would be enough to eliminate our 10-million-barrel daily diet of foreign oil for half a century.

We could build a LOT of nuke plants in 50 years. I suppose the next thing we will hear out of the communists is " It will take 60 YEARS to get nuclear power plants online, it's not worth it."

I wonder, how many years does it take to go find 30 feet of rope?

[q_an_a]

To help make the message clear to the VOTER - it might aid the visual if oil and oil services companies actually showed some HARD numbers. For example, in the Barnett Shale in the North Tx multi county gas find, over 20,000 people have jobs paying an average of $50,000 per year and the majority of those jobs are expected to last 20 years. IF DRILLING was allowed on the millions on now closed federal lands, 200,000 people would be put to work. (MY figures on new hires is a WILD number and industry peopel would be more accurate, but it is hard numbers that are needed to get people to back a Drilling = Jobs messge.

[bruinbirdman]

"200,000 people would be put to work"

Conservative candidates should not shirk from advocating drilling, refining, coal plants, gas plants, nuke plants anywhere anytime.

yitbos

[q_an_a]

Advocating is not the same as SELLING - cosnervatives like National Review or Hertiage ahve been advocating for 20 years, but off shore drilling and nuke power as used on on Naval ships has made no progres in 20 years...not in the publics mind.

To sell drilling, nuke power you have to sell specific numbers of jobs. The whole steam from steel mile to trucking, to drilling and pipelines each has people who want jobs. The industry and conservaties have to sell the specific jobs and the numbers.

[bruinbirdman]

"Advocating is not the same as SELLING -"

Good point.

Good point for the RNC to SELL since most individuals are contributing to candidates and not RNC.

Steele could concentrate on policy and forget candidates.

yitbos

[mentor2k]

Dunno. I just pulled this photo off of Aaron Tippin’s website where he’s promoting the song.