[dalereed]

If things get critical the government (s) will be forced to take the excessive taxes off of oil (last hard figure I had was 86% in 1974) and the oil fields here will be reopened and we have well over a thousand years supply here.

As for nut houses, there are far too few for the goofballs that belong in them.

[apochromat]

You can't back up those numbers, and they look wildly optimistic to me. History shows intermittent gas shortages. Now you're implying that middle east oil is irrelevant and that it's a government plot to make it relevant.

[apochromat]

It's a big government plot to keep us dependent on foreign oil, you say? There may be lots of examples of bad government out there, but I hope you understand that one's a bit too hard to swallow.

[apochromat]

I'm not against getting oil from domestic land, by the way. How long would a complete switch-over to domestic supply take, in your estimate? How much would it cost? Wouldn't it be wise to keep external supply lines open and make changes gradually? It could easily take hundreds of years to do it that way. What if your estimates are off by 25-50 percent% or more?

[apochromat]

One good thing about your oil exec estimate is that if we pump oil here, we will more directly appreciate the environmental impact, perhaps. Good idea, I suppose.