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To: cripplecreek

I don’t understand.

WHY would we use our OWN supply of oil? Let’s use the rest of the worlds oil supply and save ours.

Why are we so quick to deplete our own oil supplies? I saw we should be selfish. Use the worlds resources and save ours. That makes sense to me.


15 posted on 12/03/2012 1:27:51 PM PST by silentknight
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To: silentknight

Meant to say

I say we should be


16 posted on 12/03/2012 1:28:39 PM PST by silentknight
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To: silentknight
Why are we so quick to deplete our own oil supplies? I saw we should be selfish. Use the worlds resources and save ours. That makes sense to me.

Because the Green River oil reserve is at least as big as the entire known world's reserves of oil

Recoverable at 1 trillion barrels with current technology.

Estimated total is 3 trillion barrels

Google "USGA Green River Formation" for maps and info.

24 posted on 12/03/2012 3:09:41 PM PST by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: silentknight

It’s been argued that way too. But having oil is not as easy as sending a truck out to Bakken and plop, there’s your gusher that just took the place of the Middle East that just got the crap nuked out of it in an insane exchange with Israel. These fields take years to get going, and they won’t get going unless someone’s going to buy the output.

America wouldn’t be hurting for oil if semi-sensible energy policies were in place.


29 posted on 12/03/2012 4:07:26 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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