[vigilo]

“...it would take at least five years for oil production to begin”

That’s decades faster than any so called alternative sources. I don’t believe it would take 5 years. You can go through college in a year less than that. There’s no way it would take 5 years. No way.

[Coldwater Creek]

In the early twenty's, the boomtowns in Texas and Oklahoma began producing crude and then refining in months. No modern technology either.