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HELENA, Mont. - Here's some very good news about oil that the manipulators on Wall Street don't want you to know: there could be as much as 40 billion barrels of crude lying untouched in eastern Montana.
I respect the stand of our environmentalist, but a compromise needs to be reached. We have all the resources in the USA we need if we will work together to utilize and conserve them properly.
Silly question... the answer is OF COURSE! We are the most technologically advanced country no matter how much you think we are in "demise". It is only a matter of time before we are forced to spend money on the development of oil shale harvesting equipment. Dubais will be springing up all over the Dakotas and Montana... they will be filled with large, extraordinary shopping malls with simulated desert attractions in them.
We do have the amount we need but it will require that we employ alternatives. That we use 25% of the world's supply shows how much we need to change our ways. Or do we want to spend another few trillion dollars invading other countries to get theirs just so Joe Sixpack can rev his Hemi engine to impress the girls on the sidewalk? It's not worth fighting over, it's not worth destroying the land and the water for something that isn't renewable. We must accept this well overdue change and look forward to exploring and developing the alternatives knowing we won't owe any foreigners anything. Oil=Death.
some political leaders keep saying we have enough oil in this country and offshore to be Oil Independent.
Do you believe that?
We import 70% of the oil we use because it makes good business sense. Oil companies get oil abroad because it is cheaper to find and produce. Until this changes Oil companies won't "drill baby drill" in the USA. Also 2/3 of the oil we import comes from Canada and Mexico not the Middle East. Middle Eastern oil mostly goes to Europe, India, China and Japan.
If American trrops are fighting today for Middle Eastern oil, they figting for oil to be available in Tokyo or Berlin not hometown USA.
Wrong. American troops are fighting to keep the profit from Mid East oil in the hands of Anglo American investors and out of the hands of the citizens of the countries where the oil is found. We killed Saddam Hussein because he threatened to sell Iraqi oil in Euros not Dollars. We established, or are attempting to, a government in Iraq that will sell the oil to the A/A companies at the lifting cost not the world price. This is where oil profits are really made. We invaded Iraq in order to steal their oil.
I believe that we are very close to being able to CREATE enough energy, including oil, to be fully energy independent. I view biomass as the key here, and from my reading on the topic we seem to be just about there in terms of going into a decent production curve.
We do NOT. Known fact. We have 3% of the worlds oil, we use 25% of the worlds oil.
I've been told that what we have would only last for 5 years. They also referred to oil as black heroin. I agree.
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