...wrote: As for environmental impact, each year 47 million gallons of oil seep out naturally into US ocean waters. That far exceeds the 870,...of the reservoirs they're coming from, and actually reduce the amount of oil leaked into the oceans. No, wait, then the environmentalists would cry about the poor, starving, oil-loving bacteria. -- It's times like these which make me glad my bank...

... lie #2 Our untapped reserves are around 1.5 TRILLION barrels. The term "reserves" refers strictly to petroleum which has been discovered and is commercially recoverable. Oil that is off limits to drilling by law is by definition NOT...drilling ban is lifted, and the other criteria are met, the oil "magically" goes from being a "contingent resource" to a "reserve...

> http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news2.13s.html America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Bad reporting. And you picked an early source, the...

>>(B) our own untapped reserves simply aren't large enough to make a dent in our national consumption anyway, and, Fuckin lie #2 Our untapped reserves are around 1.5 TRILLION barrels. Reserves in the US stand at about 20 billion barrels. Resources may be measured in the trillions, but not reserves.

... are correct. Doofus, *everyone* -including the oil industry and John McCain- admits ...of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make...place are recoverable. For potentially recoverable oil shale resources, we roughly derive an... of that demand, 800 billion barrels of recoverable resources would last for... a thread of evidence to back up your bullshit, except for ...

... are correct. Doofus, *everyone* -including the oil industry and John McCain- admits ... drill our way out of the oil crunch for several reasons: (A) ... reserves are around 1.5 TRILLION barrels. Cite, again. You (whoever you are)...get busy tapping into our own oil reserves and building new refineries, ...available is because of cheap, subsidized oil. Take that away, and the ...

On 2008-09-20, Mike Smith <mws@wt.net> wrote: which means we need to get busy tapping into our own oil reserves and building new refineries, right now. Unless the free market is restored that's not likely going to happen. What we will more likely get is either the status quo where the protected market players keep prices right at the pain threshold or there will be outright ...

...'t start drilling our own oil and don't start increasing ... correct. Doofus, *everyone* -including the oil industry and John McCain- admits ... our way out of the oil crunch for several reasons: (A)... are around 1.5 TRILLION barrels. Are you really this gullible?...>supply will mean rapidly increasing oil prices for as long as...busy tapping into our own oil reserves and building new refineries...

... isn't special nor did I claim it was. You however decided to be insulting towards me but now you seem upset it came back at you. It didn't "come back at me", doofus. You put the gun to your own head in this discussion when you used the term "envirowhackos"; a label that told everyone quite ...

...isn't special nor did I claim it was. You however decided to be insulting towards me but now you seem upset it came back at you. It didn't "come back at me", doofus. You put the gun to your own head in this discussion when you used the term "envirowhackos"; a label that told everyone quite clearly that ...