"Steve W." wrote:

jim wrote:

Tom Gardner wrote:

Cheap, abundant energy HAS to be the bane of every liberal. With cheap, clean power,
all social problems go away and liberals exist to exploit victimhood and without
victims, liberals go away.

So liberals are literally undermining the efforts to extract resources
like oil?

Do Liberals dig holes under oil reservoirs
and that explains why the oil has become
so deep and difficult to extract?

No they just place the areas where the material is off limits or declare
it a national reserve and lock it away.

That may be, but extracting it from the ground
and consuming at a much faster rate
would have accomplished exactly what?

If the US continued to extract and consume US oil reserves
along the same trajectory as it was heading on in 1971
How much US oil would be left today?

In other words US is consuming half
as much domestic oil as it did in 1971
Had the US continued to extract and consume
along the trajectory it was set on in 1971
it would be consuming 3 times as much oil
from US sources instead of half as much

So how much oil would be left in the ground had the US taken
your pedal to the metal approach to extraction and consumption?


They also like to make the regulatory system so difficult that there is
no way to get through it.

Maybe there is no way for you to wrap your head around it
But...
Almost all industry regulation is formulated by
persons from the regulated industry
And then those regulations are administered
by persons from that regulated industry also
The oil industry is the prime example of this

-jim



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Steve W.