Now that we have seen that oil can
surpass and may remain solidly over $100 per barrel,
relevant, shocking facts are coming to the fore.
One fact is that the USA has massive
oil reserves that could be providing it with energy
independence and political freedom without handing
vast amounts of money to nations, many of whom are
anti-US.
The US has massive reserves that --
by using today's technologies -- could be recovered
with little to no damage to wildlife or to the
environment.
Major US oil reserves lie in Alaska,
the Rocky Mountains, and off shore including the east,
west, and gulf coasts.
Today's oil price range also makes
it profitable to recover oil from domestic fields in
Texas and elsewhere that were depleted and therefore
abandoned using old recovery standards.
Today's technology includes
innovative techniques such as horizontal drilling,
that were not available just a few decades ago.
There is no long-term
political, economic, or environmental reason why the
United States should be beholden to Arab,
under-developed, and anti-American nations for oil.
Fact >>> The US has more
oil confined in its Rocky Mountain shale deposits than Saudi
Arabia has in its total oil reserve.
The technology exists to safely,
cleanly, and efficiently extract huge amounts of oil
from the shale deposits of the US Rocky Mountains.
Fact >>> Of the
nearly 100 oil drilling rigs in the Gulf, not one experienced a
problem or any sort of leakage or injury to workers during the most severe hurricane
season of 2005, which included hurricanes Rita and Katrina.
If all those rigs withstood all
those winds and waves with no problems, deep water
drilling has been proven safe, clean, and a good
source of energy.
Fact >>> Oil shale was
mined in West Lothian, Scotland from about 1860 to 1962.
When distilled, it produced an oil which could be used
like petrol. One of the by-products was ammonium
sulphate, a widely-used fertilizer.
Over 50 years after a
large deposit of bing was produced, it was useful for
road bottoming. Highways in the east of Scotland
were built on shale.
Today's technology allows
clean, green extraction of oil from shale.
Fact >>> ANWR, the
Arctic National Wildlife Reserve established in 1960, contains a
relatively small area above a massive oil reserve owned by the
US. Environmentalist groups were perhaps correct decades ago to
fight against drilling in ANWR. Today, over 75% of Alaskans
support exploration and production on the Coastal Plain of ANWR.
The total area that is proposed
for oil drilling is about 2,000 acres.
That is about the same area as Los Angeles International
Airport.
Learn a little more
about ANWR by clicking here.
Today's drilling
technology has advanced to where wildlife and nature
are not damaged or even upset by the underground
extraction of these US oil deposits.
Observation >>> Why
can't people see that technology is filling the clean, green
glass? Why do they run in fear that the clean, green glass is
120% empty and draining fast?
People are not
well educated. People run in fear when goaded by
demagogues. People don't understand technology.
Mainly people prefer to follow Chicken Little rather
than thinking for themselves.
?????
1.
Please identify
your single-most important reason to drill for US-based oil.
2 . Please
identify your single-most important reason to not drill for
US-based oil.
3 . Please
identify your single-most important reason to build new nuclear
power generation plants.
4 . Please
identify your single-most important reason to not build
new nuclear power generation plants.
5 . How
in-favor
are you for the US to become energy-independent soon?
Strongly
in favor
In
favor
I may
be or may not be, but it is none of your business.
I
don't know anything about this stuff.
Absolutely not
in favor
