Well I’ve told this story before, but what the hey...
Years ago I’m standing in line at a check out counter. A guy behind me says something and I ask him what he does.
Says he’s a hydraulic engineer and works in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. SO I ask him if the pipeline is gonna run dry, etc.
No Way! He says... they have so much oil up there, you could swim in it, or something like that.
Every day oil engineers go out to remote places (on the continental shelf, but over the water, and do test drillings. Every day, they come back to base with these quart jars full off this stuff that’s so clean it looks like Wesson oil or something.
His estimate was that there was enough oil there to last hundreds of years.
“His estimate was that there was enough oil there to last hundreds of years.”
About 20 years ago I worked for a computer reseller...my largest account was ARCO-Alaska Division. The engineers with the company told me not to believe anything the politicians or the MSM tell us...there is enough oil in Alaska to supply the US for 100 years or more and NO it does not harm wildlife ONE bit.
They said all the arguments for not drilling in Alaska are the biggest con job on the American public in history.
If you remember,it was President Carter who warned us we would not have enough oil, then just before he left office, he turned the Northwest quarter of the state into a Federal Monument, taking all it’s oil off the table. The oil in this area of Alaska was originally set aside for national security. Carter ended up a traitor to his country...probably to help his Iranian Mullah buddies keep market share.