Don't forget, too, that natural gas is the darling fuel of the left because it has lots of hydrogen and doesn't produce as much CO2 as coal (which is effectively all carbon).
And check out the argument in the last line. Because this resource won't be available until the far future (maybe for our kids or grandkids), we shouldn't develop it. This is the same argument these kooks make for not drilling in ANWR -- if it doesn't solve 100% of our energy problem, then don't do it.
Nothing makes these simpletons happy except everybody walking to work and wiping their bums with leaves, not TP.
The SUVs put it there.
Years ago I read in an article in which an man said that if you dig a hole deep enough, you can find oil anywhere. I'm sorry I don't remember the man's name, but this is an interesting article, and it seems to match the man's theory somewhat.
Wow!
Imagine that hydrocarbons underground!
Man, whoda thunk it!
Yep, if we just learn how to drill and produce magma, we'll be energy independent! (/sarcasm)
There's a phenomenon where methane at very high pressures and low temperatures (like at the ocean floor) turns into a stable substance called Methane Hydrate
If we can figure out a good way to extract it, we would have a large renewable energy source (as new methane from decomposing sealife continually regenerates the source)
It is true that some countries in Asia are expected to add much to oil consumption and help us use up what we can now get to fairly quickly.
But to the further frowns of the greenies, with more rare and expensive fuel for vehicles:
Manufacturing will need to be started again in the USA as a result of fuel getting more expensive.
To be close enough to work without using fuel, more people will need to move to back to small communities in rural areas, thereby lessening what is really "urban sprawl" (denser, growing urban areas, poisoning the ground they sit on).
Manufacturing will need to be less centralized and more ruralized to afford an end to long commutes.
Real families with legitimately married parents will happen again. Two people in each house use less fuel resources (even PV and batteries) than one.
The possibilities of breaking anti-family and anti-American (outsourcing, etc.) efforts are many.
Remaining reserves will be horded by the various world military organizations. Then someday, we'll have to cope with a new discovery of plentiful, powerful energy for transportation again. People will again move all over the place. Families will scatter, as they do now. Wars will be back.
Makes it read better.
Holy Cow! Danger! Danger! What if we tap into the supply and the Earth takes off through the Solar System like a rocket! Can't take the chance!
When the earth is destroyed by fire on the last day it will be because some engineer thought it would be okay to poke a hole where it ought not be. Just you watch.
Well, I believe we should NOT drill ANWR right now. We should keep it as a rainy-day reserve. It doesn't make sense to extract this oil while we are pumping ME oil into a salt dome for the Strategic Reserve.
Work?
If these useless leeches had a job they wouldn't have so much time and energy to try controlling the rest of us.
Pic of the Asphalt Lake in La Brea,Trinidad that refills itself continuously no matter how much gets culled from it.Same old same old. When Cold Fusion was hot ( it may be back), Jeremy Rivkin Luddite Enviropest stated it would be a disaster to give humanity a cheap, clean, limitless form of energy. Wish people like him were dumped naked into the Alaskan wilderness to develop an appreciation of technology.
These cretins don't understand science or economics. No one really knows how much oil reserve there are, it's pure speculation. Ever single prediction over the years has been dead wrong. As far as running out is concerned...we will never run out. Long before we pump the last barrel out of the earth oil will have become gradually more and more expensive to find and pump. This will cause a long term increase in the cost of oil products which will stimulate the development of alternative forms of energy. The last thing we should be doing is investing money in alternative energies that cost more than our current forms of energy.
I have always been skeptical that there were enough dead dinosaurs and dead plants to supply us with so much oil.
"Environmental groups reacted warily to the news. Kert Davies of Greenpeace USA in Washington stressed the last thing the world needs is an even more abundant source of "global warming" gases than are already being burned in the world's cars and factories."
Someone answer me this. Who screamed first and the loudest when the lights went out in California in 91?
The thought of all this global heating makes me want to grab my favorite CO 2 enhanced beverage and release it with a loud salute to the atmosphere.