Posted on 12/25/2012 12:51:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Palin was correct.
We should be extracting any and all energy we can. Palin WAS right.
New York Slimes
China’s still eating our coal...time to jack up the prices..oh wait...Obama’s closing coal plants left & right...which means coal mines are closing in record numbers....idiot.
nevermind.
I read somewhere that we have about a hundred year supply of shale fuel. So should we try to extract it as fast as possible to keep prices low, or should we pay a little more so it lasts longer for our grandchildren and their families and develop renewable sources with all deliberate speed? Opinion Poll.
Yes. the size of the shale revolution is as big as the initial drilling at spindle top texas. Its also as economically and geo strategically significant as the OPEC embargoes of the 70’s and the decline of US oil production.
The last paragraph says this:
Geopolitically, the shale revolution strengthens the United States, reduces China’s energy dependence, generates a major global stimulus, which takes the Western economies off the fiscal rocks, while potentially destabilizing both the Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia. We must continue to press ahead with it.
The best part is it irritates the hell out of
the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats who were celebrated in the establishment MSM as the most intelligent generation ever!. They are now arguably that very establishment that praised them and they hold themselves and their ideological issue in even higher regard.
They include the ruling class New Normal: Ayers, Clintons, Obamas.
They had put a substantial bunch of their eggs into the "renewable energy" flimflam basket to help them "Bring it all down, man."
drill baby drill!!!
the trick is to keep the momentum going and tell the EPA to take a hike.
I wonder if they are also fracking in the old Teapot Dome area.
I think that the author is wrong about this. Russia has a shale formation that is - get this - EIGHTY TIMES the size of the Bakken Play. It's called the Bazhenov Formation. It's located in western Siberia and the area is already criss-crossed with gas pipelines.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/06/04/bakken-bazhenov-shale-oil/
NYT gets it wrong again....
It was 500,000 barrels of oil at the start of 2012
Now it's 750,000 barrels of oil a day...and expected to top 1 million barrels a day by the end of 2013.
In other news...the Green River Formation holds an estimated 3 trillion barrels with 1 trillion recoverable with today's technology.
As a footnote...1 trillion barrels is about equal to the rest of the worlds known reserves.
Apart from all the high paying jobs in ND...the oil/gas boom (no pun intended) is creating $millionaires at a rate of 2000 a year.
Every major oil producing basin has somewhere within it a world class source rock. Some, like in the Gulf of Mexico, are too deep and plastic to be considered viable. I am still waiting for announcements from the Middle East, North Africa, and South America about source rock plays. From what I have heard, the Vaca Muerta in Argentina is not living up to expectations and it has an obvious geopolitical risk. It is like gold mining. For all the placer deposits out there, one can only dream of the Mother Lode.
save for later
Could that be related to their belief in the abiotic oil hypothesis?
Eat your dessert first, life is uncertain.
Seriously, mankind adapts. Using your argument, we should have conserved whale oil for our lighting needs. There is always another technology or cultural adaptation down the road, always has been, always will be.
Drill, baby, drill. You information comes from the same people that said peak oil is here and we would run out of oil in just a few years.
Who really knows--but this is no time for shortsightedness.
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