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Posted on 12/31/2001 5:37:24 AM PST by backhoe
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Everyone in Alberta knows quite a bit about the oil, gas and cattle industries, even those who never worked in one of them!
i remember in the late seventies and early eighties they were gearing up for colorado oil shale near parachute colorado. hoards of people arrived. construction companies built hundreds of houses.
meanwhile, the left was gearing up for a propaganda war. a journalist friend of mine invited me to go along in an suv to look at the surface mining. the trip was arranged by a college professor who got the mining company to permit him to pass the corporate security. my hosts discussed their propaganda task.
then, poof! opec lowered the price of oil and everything disappeared. boom to bust.
Just anecdotally, I recall hearing that the Germans had a lot of problems with fuel & lube oil gotten from coal... supposedly it was not as good as that cracked from liquid petroleum.... but this is from a long-ago memory, and not reliable.
The bigger point is, however, that even without going more heavily nuclear ( which I think should be top priority ) we have plenty of energy on our own continent, and offshore, that it is the height of folly to depend on those thugs in the middle east for oil & gas.
By the way, I keep forgetting to add these links:
Oil may not be a dwindling resource after all:
The world has more oil not less
The Origin of Methane (and Oil) in the Crust of the Earth
Thomas Gold
U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1570, The Future of Energy Gases, 1993
PETROLEUM RESERVES EVALUATED WITH MODERN PETROLEUM SCIENCE
Another Washington Post article here
And how costly was clinton's celebrity-driven scam in Utah?
The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff?
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/lippo.htm
Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument: Conservation and ...
Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument: Conservation
and Controversy. Petrified Woody's ...
Description: "This million-plus acre area needs protection from uncontrolled development, but at what cost?...
-Four Years Later, Locals Still Decry Clinton Monument --
-Coalgate--that ugly Lippo-Klink-Redford connection to tyranny--
-Clinton's Utah deal not justified-WND story--
Energy and Mineral Resources, Grand Staircase - Escalante ...
Utah Geological Survey. ... A Preliminary Assessment of Energy and Mineral Resources
within the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument. ...
the nuclear battle was fought and lost a generation ago when jane fonda made that anti-nuclear movie, and many people believed it. what a cheap piece of propaganda.
there's oil off the california coast but baboxer isn't going to let go of it.
Yep, "The China Syndrome"-- good example of why people should not accept celebrities as experts on anything except what they do for a living.
On the bright side, a whole generation has grown up with Homer Simpson working in a nuclear plant ( yes, I know he's a 'toon, but pop culture has serious influence! ) and he's still OK....
Seriously, what we need is a "re-educate the public" program about how safe US Navy reactors are, how drilling offshore causes less pollution that natural seepage, etc.
Bump
Anything into Oil(solution to dependence on foregn oil?)
DISCOVER Vol. 24 No. 5 | May 2003 | Brad Lemley
Posted on 04/21/2003 5:57:41 AM PDT by honway
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