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A discovery in Colorado has more oil itself than the entire middle east combined. That's great to know. It has enough to sustain America for over 2000 years and it would only cost us $15 a barrel to extract it. Too bad we won't use it and let our economy collapse and continue our religious wars. The end.
My head almost blew looking at that page. It must have the world record on most adds on a single page ever. (rense.com, not the article page which is clean).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sega Genesis
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I see no sources in that article, this looks like something to get people to send a lot of misinformed emails. US oil has always been lower production per pump than in the Middle East and their oil is "sweeter", whatever that means.
If we are sitting on a massive reserve that could drop gas prices overnight, pick up yer guns.
This site certainly looks credible.
Sweeter means it has less sulfur.
I can't remember but not all oils are suitable for petroleum (or are to refine for), but are suitable for things like plastic etc. That is why they have the "sweeter oil" comment.
The colorado oil is "sweeter" thank the middle east oil.Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
For the majority that just want to question the site more than the information, I changed it to an NPR article. It took 2 seconds for me to google it to find it. It seems the excuse for not tapping it is the environmentalists won't let it be tapped. Maybe the environmentalists should pick up a gun and go to the middle east since they are sending thousands of soldiers to their deaths and pay welfare/healthcare to the increasing poverty stricken americans as they are causing the u.s. economically to collapse.
Sulfur, yes, I think I've heard my career oil man Father-in-Law from Colorado mention that while I was trying to drink the time away. He is the only reason I know anything about this topic. I do remember that the first big oil boom was actually in Eastern Europe and a bunch of Texans came in and trashed the place for about 50 years, oh and people died.
Less dead dino juice, more hoverboards.
How would that do anything to lower the economic gaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sega Genesis
Hmm...lower gas prices by half, sell oil to the rest of world, give people jobs, cause zero agendas involving the middle east to be oil-drivin. Confidence in america would go up increasing the value of the dollar. People would spend more and travel.
If our economy keeps getting worse no one will be able to afford to own a car anyways. :)
There have been many studies done that are pointing to the earth creating oil. The problem is it can still run out faster than the earth can produce it if we use too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
Is there any possibility that the Master Emerald could help?
This is old news... literally! Look at the date... 2006, and the news wasn't new then. What's changed is that instead of strip mining the area for $20 a barrel, there's a "new" procedure that "boils" the oil out of the shale without any mining at all, and minimal disturbance to the environment. The new process is about $50 a barrel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sega Genesis
The US isn't pushing this because we probably want to run the rest of the world out of existing reserves, giving us the upper hand in the post peek oil world. The same kind of hand Saudi Arabia enjoys right now.