Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible

Detroit News ^ | 5/29/2002 | Bruce Bartlett

[jimkress]

On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed.

[epluribus_2]

I bet if you but mention this topic in other than geological thermodynamics class you would be assaulted with cries of "KnuckleDragging Neanderthal!" and "Solar power now!", etc. The brainwashing is so thorough that I'm amazed the Detroit News printed this and got away with it. Maybe it's only on the web site. The local auto companies would want to take stock in this info, if they notice it.

[RightResponse]

Think I'll fire up the old '72 Stingray and do some guzzlin', and then burn some rubber. Best news I've heard on this front in some time!!

[WilliamWallace1999]

The guys theory is full of holes. He doesn't give a viable explanation for the complex hydrocarbons that exist in oil, gas, and coal. Also, these geological deposits are filled with fossils from the coniferous period. Paleontology is used in the drilling process everyday. Fixing carbon into complex three dimensional shapes is a miracle of nature. Our feeble attempts at replicating nature fall short. No non-biological process in the earth's "core" could account for all the thousands of organic compounds found in petroleum.

This doen't mean I don't agree with the premise that there is plenty of oil to burn. East Texas is filled with capped of gas wells not close enough to existing pipelines to be financial viable.

[texlok]

I still think we should go full-tilt developing fuel cell technology with the Japanese. Without oil, the towel heads have nothing. They should go back to herding sheep in the desert and leaving the rest of the world alone.

Agreed. We need to disentangle ourselves from the middle-east as soon as possible.

[GluteusMax]

I still think we should go full-tilt developing fuel cell technology with the Japanese.

That, or just cut out the middle east altogether in oil imports, by buying more from Russia, Venezuela, etc. I'd love to see the sheiks stop getting one thin dime of our money.

Or better yet, forcibly take over the OPEC oil production and cut the diaperheads out of the loop entirely.

[FreeAtlanta]

That could be true. It would be sad, if we are losing our oil to a bunch of hate filled loons because of our hate filled loons.

[Grampa Dave]

TS posted, If I could only get my gas tank to work this way.

If you find out a way to do it please let me know. After filling up my OJ Simpson all White Bronco for White honkies yesterday for a fishing trip, I'm would be very interested in this.

I will buy you the proverbial free lunch and heck even dinner at the restaurant of your choice if you can master this future alternative energy.

[kellynla]

BUMP for alternate fuels...the sooner we can tell the towelheads to shove it the better...

[aruanan]

See Thomas Gold. See also Gold's theory about dust in craters on Eros. Gold has a history of proposing interesting theories and having them turn out to be correct.

[Tauzero]

ping

[Tijeras_Slim]

Tell you what, Grampa Dave... I won't stop there, once I discover the self-filling gas tank, I'll start work on the self-filling beer keg.

Regards, Slim

[Alberta's Child]

We will always be dependant on foreign oil because we are plauged with enviro-nazis.

Actually, most of the places that the enviro-nazis have managed to close off to oil exploration are not feasible for drilling anyway. The major problem in the U.S. is that the cost of extracting oil is very high compared to most other places, due to a strong dollar, high labor costs, etc. An article posted here last week, for example, indicated that it wouldn't make sense to drill in ANWR unless oil was trading at $25 to $30 per barrel on a long-term basis.

Saudi oil is particularly cheap because it is much purer than other sources and therefore doesn't need to be refined as much.

[Alberta's Child]

Good point. What you've suggested has already been going on for years. I heard a figure last week that indicated the U.S. only imports about 15% of its oil from Saudi Arabia anyway.

[weikel]

I'll ask an expert.

[weikel]

Bump

[maestro]

Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible

REALLY???????.....

............Ask the small, "mom & pop" INDEPENDENT dealership 'owners', of the 1950's, 60's, 70's, 80's,...NO 90's!!!!!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this.

For years those of us whom hate and detest the best friends of the Opecker Princes have in America, their buds, the enviral whackos, have been saying that there was plenty of oil. The so called shortage of oil claim just increased our dependence on Opecker Oil since Jimmy Carter enabled this enviral lie about the shortage of oil in the 1970's.

Makes you wonder about how much money has been laundered to the enviral whack groups and their senate buddies who just kept us from drilling in ANWR by the Opecker Princes?

[Doomonyou]

Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible

I'm not holding my breath for $0.25 a gallon gas.

Yet!

[eddie willers]

once I discover the self-filling gas tank, I'll start work on the self-filling beer keg.

You're priorities are all screwed up.