Posted on 07/21/2007 12:34:42 PM PDT by Rick_Michael
water is one big thing. The area is already a semi desert, and the traditional methods use a lot of water. Maybe they can come up with a different way that doesn’t use so much.
When the liquid oil runs out, perhaps the US should become radical capitalists, and use the shale oil weapon against the Islamic economies, who then will be relying on us for their oil supplies.
Most of which is in my yard, here in New Jersey.
Lots of oil off Florida coast if you’re willing to drill deep enough.
I saw an article the other day that said environmentalists were moving to have the federal land barred from shale oil extraction. In other news, a Federal Judge has barred Exxon form drilling offshore in Alaska off the North Slope.
The area was protected for the future with the creation of the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserve in 1912.Thank god rationalists secured it before environmentalists could f* it up.
Source?
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1542.cfm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/21/business/NA-FIN-US-Shell-Offshore-Drilling-Alaska.php
Earthtimes really should pull their head out of their butt and keep up on the issue. Shell withdrew because of economic reasons and rumors have more withdrawals on the way by others citing cost and methods. It is coming just not as soon as some would like it is all
http://test.denverpost.com/extremes/ci_6155257
Yep, the greens will battle ANY extraction of fossil fuel, anywhere they can. As you seem to be well aware, it is because the environmental movement has been hijacked by the socialist movement; the reds are now cloaked within the greens.
The war is being fought on the battleground of "global warming". The greens/reds have succeeded already in getting our Supreme Court to allow the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide, and some states to pass legislation effectively establishing CO2 as a toxin.
We are losing this war.
CO2 CANNOT be causing our current warming. The man-made CO2 in our atmosphere is a mere 383 parts per million, ALL the CO2 is less than one percent of all greenhouse gases in the air, 95% being water vapor. Studies have shown that CO2 increases FOLLOW rises in temperature, drop-dead proof that CO2 isn't the cause of our recent warming. Of the roughly 8 tenths of one degree centigrade that global temp rose during the 20th century, three-fourths of THAT rise occurred prior to the year 1940, that is, prior to the advent of the bulk of our smokestack industry. Botanists tell us that higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere allow plants to grow WITH LESS WATER, the addition of CO2 from my SUV can thus be a very good thing, as higher crop yields, more potable water, and the greening of deserts are just a few of the benefits. Follow the link below, and you will find 7,000 scientists who agree with everything I say above.
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
We just returned from our annual vacation in central NY where there is a lot of shale. People are wanting to explore the area for oil, but Senator Clinton has blocked it. Upstate NY is dying because of high taxes and this could be a real boom to the area. Mrs Clinton does not seem to care, why am I not suprised.
What do they need oil for? They have no economy to speak of except producing oil.
Regards,
GtG
I own mineral rights to oil shale land in Mississippi. I sure wish someone would drill there.
A small part, never significant. The oil industry study announced this week that the oil industry will not be able to keep up with demand over the next two decades. If the ME is lost it will happen a lot sooner and a lot bigger. It is not an oil shortage in the sense of there being no more oil, but of oil production by whatever means. The oil being produced now is easy and cheap. The next batch will be more expensive and harder to produce. Oil from shale is an industrial process quite a bit different than simply drilling and pumping oil out of the ground.
“Some time?”
They’ve been talking about this for 45 years that I can remember, and they seem no closer today than they were back then.
That oil off Florida is China’s now through their partners in Cuba ,,,, our environmentalists and governor Crist won’t let us drill but they can’t stop China from drilling..
I’d love to see some leadership from the top declaring an economic emergency and allowing (actually demanding) drilling in ANWR , off FL and refusing to renew refinery licenses unless they increase capacity...
Plenty of oil in CA too but we can’t think of drilling there although the fields are known (LA once looked like Oklahoma with all the derricks..) .
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