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OIL SHORTAGE IS GEOGRAPHICAL...
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There's a very simple answer to the oil shortage in the USA.
~ Nobody bothered to check the oil.
~ We just didn't know we were getting low.
~ The reason for that is purely geographical.
Our OIL is located in :
Alaska ~ California ~ Florida ~ Louisiana ~ Wyoming ~ Utah ~ Kansas ~ Oklahoma ~ Pennsylvania and Texas BUT
Our dipsticks are located in DC
Any Questions?
~ Nobody bothered to check the oil.
~ We just didn't know we were getting low.
~ The reason for that is purely geographical.
Our OIL is located in :
Alaska ~ California ~ Florida ~ Louisiana ~ Wyoming ~ Utah ~ Kansas ~ Oklahoma ~ Pennsylvania and Texas BUT
Our dipsticks are located in DC
Any Questions?
Comments
Well.......The oil light didn't come on.
The "oil light" has been on for thirty years.....but nobody bothered to do anything about it
quote:Originally posted by jma2006
Well.......The oil light didn't come on.
The "oil light" has been on for thirty years.....but nobody bothered to do anything about it
I Agree
Really though, how many are there? There are only a couple million card-carrying environmentalists (The Sierra Club, for example, only has about 700,000 members) and only a fraction of those could be described a radicals. A few environmental groups are exceptionally well funded, but they still don't wield the power necessary to ram home their agenda all by themselves.
The lion's share of the blame for most of these ills fall squarely at the feet of NIMBYs.
Everyone wants to drill offshore.....everyone but coastal states (until recently) that depend on their beaches for tourism.
Everyone wants more refineries, but how many people want one near their home? Who wants oil contaminating their water supply?
"We need more nuclear power, but don't you dare build one in my backyard!"
Of course, why blame yourself when its so much easier to blame someone else
Its easy to blame "enviro-whakos"....nobody likes them anyways, at least no one this forum [:)]
Really though, how many are there? There are only a couple million card-carrying environmentalists (The Sierra Club, for example, only has about 700,000 members) and only a fraction of those could be described a radicals. A few environmental groups are exceptionally well funded, but they still don't wield the power necessary to ram home their agenda all by themselves.
The lion's share of the blame for most of these ills fall squarely at the feet of NIMBYs.
Everyone wants to drill offshore.....everyone, until recently, but coastal states that depend on their beaches for tourism.
Everyone wants more refineries, but how many people want one near their home? Who wants oil contaminating their water supply?
"We need more nuclear power, but don't you dare build one in backyard!"
Of course, why blame yourself when its so much easier to blame someone else
exactly...
we need more jails. dont build it withing 5 miles of
churches, school, retirement communitties, large neighbor hoods, ect.ect.
The trouble with ANWR is that it doesn't have enough oil in it to do anything more than put a bump in our current output.
If there was a 50 year supply of oil in ANWR (hell, even a 20 year supply) you better believe we'd be drilling there..........caribou, polar bears, eskimoes, etc. be damned.
Estimates place the reserves there at just over 200,000,000 barrels of oil, but those are GUESSES because we don't really know.
There have been a lot of Dims cranking out the old lines about how we can't drill our way out of this current shortage, that drilling won't lower gas prices in the immediate future, that oil companies should spend all their profits on alternative energy, et cetera; but each one of those denials has a gaping hole in it that you could drive a gas truck through.
I posted a while back about the first refinery to be built in 30 years, that will be located in SoDak. It will still take about 5 years for that refinery to come on-line with any sort of capacity, and then there's the regional cockails or blends required by the EPA in different regions of the U.S. that will dilute capacity by about a third.
Since our President came out with the Executive Order, the Dims have stated that they would fight this measure to "save our environment".
Not a word about this being the best thing for our economy since the bust in the 80's, when Houston almost went bankrupt, and thousands more oilfield workers were hit hard by unemployment or foreclosures.
If Klinton had approved drilling, it was commonly said that we wouldn't see any oil from there in 10 years-well it's been 10 years, and our refining capacity has shrunk by 56 MILLION barrels a day due to there not being any more refineries.
Pinheads like the Sierra Club, Save America's Forests, Forest Guardians, Friends of the West, Greenpeace, EarthFirst, and others have been instrumental in changing the economies of states like Kalifornia, Louisiana and Texas, which produce and refine all their own production. Dims listen to these folks because the Green Weenies are a powerful lobby (kinda like NRA...) that are able to secure votes from their fanatical members.
So, disregard all that talk about there being billions of barrels of oil under the Continental Shelf, ignore all those estimates of millions of barrels of oil in the Utah oil shale, completely deny the existence of Permian residuals of half a billion barrels in NM, and continue to vote Dimocrat! They have your best interest at heart.
The trouble with the Alaska Nat'l Wildlife Refuge is that we haven't been allowed to drill exploratory holes to determine exactly what sort of supply is there.
Estimates place the reserves there at just over 200,000,000 barrels of oil, but those are GUESSES because we don't really know.
200 million? You sure about that?
I've never seen an estimate that low
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