Posted on 02/23/2009 6:04:24 PM PST by Flavius
About half of the oil in the ocean bubbles up naturally from the seafloor, with Earth giving it up freely like it was of no value. Likewise, NASA satellites collect thousands of images and 1.5 terrabytes of data every year, but some of it gets passed over because no one thinks there is a use for it.
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which tree is approved by the politburo to hug
also could someone explain how free stuff is traded for 150 dollars a barrel
stuck between greed an communism
“The Larch”.
An old story that has been repeatedly spiked by the MSM....
Every study I’ve read about U.S. waters suggests that the real number for Americans is about 95% of the petroleum in U.S. waters is coming from natural seeps.
Another Inconvenient truth
Said free stuff is collected by the hard labor of very rugged individuals. Collected free stuff is then transported on large tankers which cost beaucoup dollars. Tankers off load free stuff to facilities which then refine free stuff and break it down to its constituent components. These facilities also represent a sizeable dollar investment.
Constituent components are then sold on a mostly free market to recoup investments...and then some. Howzat?
The other factor to consider is that catastrophic oil spills are always the result of supertankers dumping millions of gallon in one spot.
When people cite environmental concerns as a reason for not drilling offshore, they’re really thinking about the consequences of NOT drilling offshore, which would keep us dependent on supertanker tranport for decades longer. Offshore rigs ship their petroleum to shore in pipelines which never wreck and can be shut off in hurricanes and so forth, as the lack of any significant spillage during the recent Gulf hurricanes showed.
Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is nothing but a big natural oil spill.
If you think that free stuff is easy to gather up, you should certainly try and see how difficult it is to gather it up.
Some one needs to get a Obamagrant to go clean this pollution up..
Cute.
I believe your chart includes spills of refined products by boaters and so forth. If you just look at production and transport, the natural seeps overwhelm everything else.
I learned this over 50 years ago. Ruined a bathing suit in Florida when sea tar got on it, can’t get that stuff off. I have also read that seepage on the California coast was significantly reduced when off shore drilling started taking oil out of the seabed. Strange how these facts just don’t seem to get much publication, one could almost think there is an agenda involved.
Yep, if you fly over the Gulf on any sunny day and you’ll see round oil globules floating on the surface; lots of it.
Prior to the oil rigs above Santa Barbara, Long Beach Oil island, and the Seal beach Platform the beaches from Santa Batbara to Mexico were covered with tat from the natural seepage.
The Oil platforms reduced the gas pressure so that there isn’t thousands of barrels/day seeping out of the sea floor.
When I was a kid and went to the beach the first stop was the tion washtub, kerosene and scrub brush before I was allowed in the house.
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