jim wrote:
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 case you haven't noticed there have been MORE oil reserves found in
the US since that time. Just been banned by the liberals from actually
getting them.


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

So in your world Obama isn't the person who signed the moratorium on
drilling offshore, and it couldn't have been Bill Clinton who signed the
laws that locked up thousands of acres of coal, and it must have been
the nasty people at BP who drew up abd singed the paperwork blocking
drilling on the north slope and in ANWAR.
I'm sure it was folks from Exxon who created the latest permit system
that runs the applicant in circles and stops anything from actually
happening in oil exploration .
Just like it is those folks who design and build the big wind turbines
who passed laws stopping them from being constructed off the coast of Mass.

Yep sure can see how it is the INDUSTRY in charge.


Maybe you need to actually understand how the REAL world operates. Not
your little SIM world.


--
Steve W.