"jim" "sjedgingN0Sp"@m@mwt,net wrote in message
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"Steve W." wrote:

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.

Your not even going to make a wild guess
at what the answer is




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 didn't say anything about the hob goblins who sign stuff
Did hob goblins sign something
that locked up your ability to reason?
And why are you calling folks nasty
they're just trying to make a buck

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 .

I'm also sure it was the folks from Exxon (inter alia)
It is easy to tell (what appears like circles to you)
helps Exxon make more money in the long run
but why don't you try to tell me how it hurts Exxon

One of the things Exxon has probably noticed
that seems to have escaped your attention
the stuff is not losing value
as it sits there underground
And it isn't as if Exxon is sitting off in the corner
with nothing to do but
cry and mope about where they might find
a barrel of oil to sell


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.

You mean the wind industry might not be so entrenched
as the oil industry
Oh My! Quelle surprise

So, just who the **** is responsible for me not getting my atomic-powered flying car
that I was promised when I was a kid?