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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
Actually it is just another sign of the "leave me alone" types being manipulated. The Oil companies currently have 68 million acres (proven reserves) leased to them for drilling. But they haven't drilled there because they make far too much money by keeping oil prices high. Plus they can use the current artificial market not just to make obscene profits, but to change the agenda to getting even more land leases, which they will again just sit on, and use only what they need to maximize profits.
Their current excuse for not drilling on the leased land they have is that it "costs too much, not enough equipment, etc", while hoping everyone ignores those record breaking profits.
The best we can hope for from these market (and opinion) manipulations, is that it awakens people to getting those alternative, renewable energy sources closer to reality. That would surely piss of the Oil companies, and screw up their agendas.
But as long as people ignore what is right in front of them, they will continue to be "left alone" right up until they have no where left to turn.
Given the areas in the south's dependence on energy to keep them from turning to toast, and their natural geographic advantage for making solar energy into a new 21 century industry for them, I am amused by their reluctance to accept that reality.
I certainly don't expect this argument to change any "leave me aloners" minds, but, what can you do? As has been pointed out, it is probably all due to poor upbringing.  |
That's right, my pappy teached me to shoot straight, bathe twice a week, and never vote for a city slicker... And I'm bitter, too....
Have you ever consider the engineering feat it is to drill 3 miles down, with curves in the path? And from 1985 to 2000, you couldn't catch a cold, much less get a job as a petroleum engineer. Suddenly there's 10 time the need for P.E.'s than there
are P.E.s. Over half the drilling rigs in the '70's were melted as scrap by the 90's. (And almost all the banks in Texas were allowed to go broke....funny, that never happened to New York banks, no matter how many bad loans they have...)