U.S. oil supply (Page 2): You can also look at it the other way around: Can anyone name ANY product of any description that does not, in one way or another, require or depend on oil?

alexol

You can also look at it the other way around:

Can anyone name ANY product of any description that does not, in one way or another, require or depend on oil?

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Bullwhompy

Wuligal Loc: Slippery Rock, Pa.

alexol wrote:

You can also look at it the other way around:

Can anyone name ANY product of any description that does not, in one way or another, require or depend on oil?

You have a point - the trucks that deliver the product and the roads that they drive on depend on oil. Has anyone ever asked AOC exactly how she intends to solve that little problem? I mean, if everyone in the world was driving an EV we still need oil to build the roads and make the plastic in the steering wheel.

alexol

phlash46 wrote:

Bullwhompy

Maybe or maybe not, hard to say based on your post.

To what are you referring?

kenArchi Loc: Seal Beach, CA

Our retired Standard Oil neighbor said we have more than enough oil. We will deplete everyone's else's oil before we use our oil. Then they will come begging at our doors.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

FredCM wrote:

Environmentalists? HAH! The oil companies got burned a few years ago, remember oil was less than $20 a barrel. Too much drilling and pumping. They're not about spend the money to restart the pumping in NDAK if it means $20 oil. If you want to know why gas is so expensive look at the 6,000 pound vehicle in your driveway, the one that's never seen mud and the paint on the bed looks brand new.

👍👍!

srt101fan

Thomas902 wrote:

Many thanks srt101fan... btw, I've actually worked... (show quote)

Thomas, you certainly have travelled a long and winding path to become an excellent photographer and stylist! I thoroughly enjoy your creative output.

And, yes, plants have done well with the sun, haven't they?

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Sirsnapalot wrote:

Found this interesting thought I'd share

U.S. OIL SUPPLY.....INCREDIBLE..!!
About 6 months ago, there was a news program on oil and one of The Forbes Bros. was the guest. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil does the U.S. Have in the ground?" Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "More than all the Middle East put Together."
The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only Scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota, western South Dakota, and Extreme eastern Montana.
Check THIS out:
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable (5 Billion barrels), at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion. "When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their Jaws hit the floor.
They had no idea." says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyzer. "This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years,” reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
It's a formation known as the Williston Basin but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada. For years, U.S. Oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago.
However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's Massive reserves, And, we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is Light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!!!!! That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years Straight. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - Because it's from 2006 !!!!!!
U.S. Oil Discovery - Largest Reserve in the World Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006. Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the Largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush Mandated its extraction. In many recent years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this mother lode of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore Drilling?
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on Earth.
Here are the official estimates:
8 times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
18 times as much oil as Iraq
21 times as much oil as Kuwait
22 times as much oil as Iran
500 times as much oil as Yemen
And it's all right here in the Western United States !!!!
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the Environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become Independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people Dictate our lives and our economy. WHY?
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East, more than 2 TRILLION barrels Untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the World today, reports The Denver Post.
Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?
Got your attention yet? Now, while you're thinking about it, do this:
Pass this along. If you don't take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you complain about gas prices, by doing NOTHING, you forfeit your right to complain.

Found this interesting thought I'd share br br U.... (show quote)

"Because the Environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become Independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people Dictate our lives and our economy."
Canada has the same problem! We've got the 3rd largest oil & gas reserves in the world and we can't get pipelines built, can't get approval for new exploration and development, can't get processing facilities built, etc. because of a few idiotic eco-terrorists. Heck, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they're being financed with foreign $$$'s!?

Meanwhile we, like the USA, are importing foreign oil. Just totally insane. Of course having a Liberal government that is more interested in environmental issues (and supposedly saving the world) than energy security sure doesn't help!!

China (and India) have the right idea when they say ENERGY SECURITY MUST be a country's #1 priority. If there is any doubt about this one only has to look at the current situation in Europe!

bwa

alexol

Wuligal wrote:

You have a point - the trucks that deliver the product and the roads that they drive on depend on oil. Has anyone ever asked AOC exactly how she intends to solve that little problem? I mean, if everyone in the world was driving an EV we still need oil to build the roads and make the plastic in the steering wheel.

40+ years in the industry convinces me that we will always need oil for a variety of things, but not in the same quantity, or even same way, as we do now.

We are held back by a needed breakthrough in power generation - possibly fusion, or at least atomic of some variant perhaps - and battery technology. Both of those are enjoying enormous sums of money for research and WILL yield fruit.

It's a little bit like cellphone cameras. Film has been around for a very long time, and just very few short years ago cellphone cameras were a gleam in some inventor's eye. Now, they've effectively decimated, gutted even, the camera industry, but for a few holdouts - such as us on this site.

Oil too, in it's present usage, is on the way out; an industrial dead man walking.

You'll have noted how most of the major oil companies are reinventing themselves as energy companies, themselves moving away from oil. Relatively speaking, oil will be on the sidelines of the energy industry and is moving quickly in that direction.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

Sirsnapalot wrote:

Found this interesting thought I'd share

U.S. OIL SUPPLY.....INCREDIBLE..!!
About 6 months ago, there was a news program on oil and one of The Forbes Bros. was the guest. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil does the U.S. Have in the ground?" Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "More than all the Middle East put Together."
The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only Scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota, western South Dakota, and Extreme eastern Montana.
Check THIS out:
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable (5 Billion barrels), at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion. "When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their Jaws hit the floor.
They had no idea." says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyzer. "This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years,” reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
It's a formation known as the Williston Basin but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada. For years, U.S. Oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago.
However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's Massive reserves, And, we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is Light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!!!!! That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years Straight. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - Because it's from 2006 !!!!!!
U.S. Oil Discovery - Largest Reserve in the World Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006. Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the Largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush Mandated its extraction. In many recent years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this mother lode of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore Drilling?
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on Earth.
Here are the official estimates:
8 times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
18 times as much oil as Iraq
21 times as much oil as Kuwait
22 times as much oil as Iran
500 times as much oil as Yemen
And it's all right here in the Western United States !!!!
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the Environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become Independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people Dictate our lives and our economy. WHY?
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East, more than 2 TRILLION barrels Untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the World today, reports The Denver Post.
Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?
Got your attention yet? Now, while you're thinking about it, do this:
Pass this along. If you don't take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you complain about gas prices, by doing NOTHING, you forfeit your right to complain.

Found this interesting thought I'd share br br U.... (show quote)

Everything about oil is politics.

cwp3420

phlash46 wrote:

Bullwhompy

Very deep comment, troll. Typical for you though.

alexol

fetzler wrote:

Everything about oil is politics.

Not wrong!

Smudgey Loc: Ohio, Calif, Now Arizona

wmurnahan wrote:

Drill baby drill is not the answer. Yes we will have oil, but we are also putting money into our enemies pockets. Never forget that all but a couple of the 9/11 terrorist were Saudi's. Almost all the money for Islamic terrorist comes from Saudi Arabia. The only way to end money going to our enemies is if we, a nation that just a few years ago was looked at as the example to the world, lead the world on getting off the oil tit.

All but a couple of the 9/11 terrorist were Saudi's ?????? 😜 Ahh I read that all but a couple of them were from outer space.😆 and we wonder where these stories come from.

Smudgey Loc: Ohio, Calif, Now Arizona

Smudgey wrote:

All but a couple of the 9/11 terrorist were Saudi's ?????? 😜 Ahh I read that all but a couple of them were from outer space.😆 and we wonder where these stories come from.

Error on my part, wrong attack. Sorry I apologize.

RonD Loc: Topeka, KS

Unfortunately a world market. Price