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Yeah.
In my pants.
That's one way to build a landing strip.
Yeah.
In my pants.
I would make the same argument, either way. it's just common sense.
By the same token, anyone who doesn't have anything vested in the oilfield can't argue the topic objectively, either; against oil and gas production.
The reason I ask the anti-oilers if they are investing any money into green energy, is because if it's such an awesome idea, they should be dumping every spare dime they have into green energy companies and recruiting more investors, so the industry can grow.
I would make the same argument, either way. it's just common sense.
By the same token, anyone who doesn't have anything vested in the oilfield can't argue the topic objectively, either; against oil and gas production.
The reason I ask the anti-oilers if they are investing any money into green energy, is because if it's such an awesome idea, they should be dumping every spare dime they have into green energy companies and recruiting more investors, so the industry can grow.
We all use oil, even those of you that are anti-oil use oil so finding more is a good thing. As technology advances more oil becomes accessible.
Yes someday the demand may exceed the supply but then again it may not.
Eventually the oil supply will be used up...
In the meantime other forms of energy will come on line and there will be a smooth transition to these new forms of energy.
Of course this scenario depends on rational people running the show not alarmist panicked sky is falling people who literally want to put the cart ahead of the horse. If they have their way we are in for a forced rough transition that will destroy economies and ruin possibly even end lives.
Until it doesn't. Oil is finite ya know.
"Technology is great, but it can't find what's not there. In the last five years, we consumed 27 billion barrels of oil a year, but the oil industry discovered only three billion barrels a year. So only one barrel was replaced for every nine we used.". - L.B. Magoon Report for US Geological Survey
You have GOT to be kidding.
Oh, good, you were kidding.
What alternative energy replaces petrochemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides that artificially boosts crop yields on which our massive population now depends? (hint, plugging electric currents into the ground does not work)
You really don't get it. Without oil-based conventional agriculture, billions of people have to starve. We literally have been turning the energy contained in oil into the food that we eat. When oil supply diminishes, even gradually over time, both food and the oil we use to make it and ship it become prohibitively expensive, which necessarily causes a food crisis. This isn't like Y2K or global warming. It's guaranteed, concrete arithmetic. Cause and effect.
If you want to just automatically write it all off as alarmism and sit comfortably in denial, be my guest. But if you want to actually read any of the literature (there's simply tons) that will illuminate this a bit more for you, let me know, and I'll point you to some.
Until it doesn't. Oil is finite ya know.
"Technology is great, but it can't find what's not there. In the last five years, we consumed 27 billion barrels of oil a year, but the oil industry discovered only three billion barrels a year. So only one barrel was replaced for every nine we used.". - L.B. Magoon Report for US Geological Survey
You have GOT to be kidding.
Oh, good, you were kidding.
What alternative energy replaces petrochemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides that artificially boosts crop yields on which our massive population now depends? (hint, plugging electric currents into the ground does not work)
You really don't get it. Without oil-based conventional agriculture, billions of people have to starve. We literally have been turning the energy contained in oil into the food that we eat. When oil supply diminishes, even gradually over time, both food and the oil we use to make it and ship it become prohibitively expensive, which necessarily causes a food crisis. This isn't like Y2K or global warming. It's guaranteed, concrete arithmetic. Cause and effect.
If you want to just automatically write it all off as alarmism and sit comfortably in denial, be my guest. But if you want to actually read any of the literature (there's simply tons) that will illuminate this a bit more for you, let me know, and I'll point you to some.
Generally, the company who has the rights to the oil sells it on the world market. There's not really an "our oil" or a "their oil." It's all more or less fungible.So, we're going to use this find to supply the world with oil? Or, just use it ourselves and put Americans back to work?
What do you suppose the timeline on making oil is?The planet is going to just stop producing oil? I doubt that's going to happen.
Generally, the company who has the rights to the oil sells it on the world market. There's not really an "our oil" or a "their oil." It's all more or less fungible.
More good news is that as the price of oil goes up, the amount oil that it's financially feasible to retrieve will keep going up. Yay high oil prices!
What do you suppose the timeline on making oil is?
Point being that for many practical intents and purposes, oil is dumped into the same big-ass bucket. Sure the actual molecules of oil are moved as little as possible to help increase profits, but the system is such that there's no real difference to the market. Once the oil is out of the ground it is supplying the world with oil.well, this is where commons sense comes into play. It's most cost effective to take oil from the GOM and refine it in...America!
Have you noticed the pipelines that are running out of the GOM? Well, maybe you haven't, since you're not from here.
How often?A long ass time. Do you think the planet stopped producing oil, though? new pools are maturing all the time.
Generally, the company who has the rights to the oil sells it on the world market. There's not really an "our oil" or a "their oil." It's all more or less fungible.
More good news is that as the price of oil goes up, the amount oil that it's financially feasible to retrieve will keep going up. Yay high oil prices!
How often?
Just recently, as I pointed out.
Just recently, as I pointed out.
Just recently, as I pointed out.
The United States uses about 7 Billion barrels of oil per year so this won't last very long at all.
We need to open every possible field offshore or on ASAP
You really don't get it. Without oil-based conventional agriculture, billions of people have to starve. We literally have been turning the energy contained in oil into the food that we eat. When oil supply diminishes, even gradually over time, both food and the oil we use to make it and ship it become prohibitively expensive, which necessarily causes a food crisis. This isn't like Y2K or global warming. It's guaranteed, concrete arithmetic. Cause and effect.
If you want to just automatically write it all off as alarmism and sit comfortably in denial, be my guest. But if you want to actually read any of the literature (there's simply tons) that will illuminate this a bit more for you, let me know, and I'll point you to some.
Matured is differrent then discovered
Do you think the Earth produced that oil a month ago, a year ago or thousands of years ago?
Good god you really don't understand just how much of this stuff we go through...
It seriously never occurred to me that there might be people under the impression that oil might not run out.
At what point did the planet stop producing oil?
Matured means it there. And, if it's there, we can find it.
At what point did the planet stop producing oil?