Lee K wrote:
"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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evodawg wrote:
Leon wrote:

It has made the national news now, a giant 500' x 600' x 150'
deep
sink hole
has formed inside a small Texas town. It is sucking up vehicles,
buildings
and trees. Arial camera views from a helicopter are perfect for
viewing how ever, "business as usual" a member of congress has
decided that he needs to spend more of the tax payers money to
fly
down and see for him self.

Perhaps he plans to use all his hot air to reinflate the salt
dome
that is collapsing.

http://www.click2houston.com/video/16211395/index.html

Congress answer to everything, throw money at it and it will go
away.
Or instead of determining the problem, (Gas and Oil industry) tax
their profits... How about allowing them to freakin DRILL!!!!
God,
I
hate our government! Vote all the asses out!!!!

Drill where?

There's ANWR, an area the size of SC where they would create an oil
field the size of NYC's Central Park and contains billions of
barrels
of oil.

Uh huh, they're going to solve the world's energy problems with an
area the size of a rich guy's back yard. How long will "billions of
barrels" last?

There's the Gulf Coastline, not drilling there is not going
to prevent environmental risks, since Cuba is beginning drilling on
their side.

In what "gulf" do you believe Cuba to be located? If you mean the
Gulf of Mexico, when did they _stop_ drilling there?

Offshore west coast.

How much oil is there that has not already been tapped?

Develop the oil shale/sands in CO,
WY, Dakotas.

This is not an issue of "drilling". Find out what it costs to extract
oil from oil shale and you'll find that it's not economically feasible
at this time.

Additional fields in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico
that were not economically viable at $30 a barrel oil but now seem
cheap at $125 oil.

What's preventing them from being used?

Here's a quote from a decade old report: "During the 1970's and
80's, exploration effort focused on finding billion-barrel fields --
fields of less than several hundred million barrels were considered
uneconomic at anything less than the inflated prices of the early
1980's. Only a few fields were discovered that fulfilled the
apparent
size requirements. However, today, accumulations as small as 50
million barrels are considered to be of economic interest."

Yeah, but how long is 50 million barrels going to last? The message
here is that we're scraping the bottom of the barrel, not that we're
going to solve the problem with more diligent scraping.

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