T. Boone Pickens is pushing an alternative energy agenda that will make him BILLIONS of $$$ (more).
How do you explain the oil field discovered just a few years ago that covers most of the Gulf of Mexico? That field alone increased our reserves by over 75%!
Of course the democrats won't let the drillers drill for their own nefarious reasons, but the oil is there. They said it would take ten years for the oil to reach the pumps, but they said that ten years ago and still they refuse to drill.
There is even a shallow blister close to the panhandle of florida which could have oil on the way to the refineries (which haven't been built new since 1975) within 18 months.
How do you explain the fact that even depleted oil fields from long ago are refilling? In the 1950's the former Soviet Union was considered a non oil producing country.
Then Stalin saw a report on ultra deep oil drilling. He ordered a huge effort and today, RUSSIA is the #1 or #2 oil producer in the world.
I remember back in the 1970s when the Peak Oil crew were bleating about how we were going to "run out of oil" within 10 years. They have to keep pushing that timeline back.
Peak oil, like global warming, is a fiction invented by the left and reinforced by globalist corporations and a marxist media to engineer massive societal change with basic freedoms suffering eradication.
Supply isn't the issue.
THE OIL IS THERE. WE
CAN DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS MESS, but we lack the political will.
Please don't raise the image of environmental catastrophe. The technology is there to make drilling far more safe and productive by way of horizontal drilling techniques so that platforms won't have to be moved too much.
Then there is the SHALE OIL advances in technology. Shell Oil Co just completed a secret project in this area, releasing the results to the public recently. They created an experimental site just 40'x40' in size. Sinking three steel probes into the shale oil bed, the below ground area was heated to a temperature of over 600 degrees F. The result? The oil separated from the shale and was liquid enough to be pumped at a rate of approximately 600 barrels per day on that tiny footprint.
In terms of Shale oil, the United States has 3 times the oil available to all of OPEC combined. The technology is there and the cost to produce is coming down, fast.
Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% in favor of alternative energy. I personally plan to get into the biodiesel business when I retire. Just for personal consumption.
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I also favor green construction:
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