Good Thing They Opened ANWR To Drilling

[93henfan]

We’ve had so much trouble finding oil that we were about to run out:

“For years and years, we thought we were running out of oil,” Verrastro said. “It took $120 for a barrel of oil to make people experiment with technology, and that has been unbelievably successful. We are the largest oil and gas producer in the world.”

The United States is so awash in oil that petroleum-rich Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil and natural gas company is reportedly interested in investing in the fertile Texas Permian Basin shale oil region, according to a report last month.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... 1a6141cd5a

This crisis is so dire, I would suggest opening up Yellowstone to drilling next. They could tap right into the Keystone Double XL.

[SDHornet]

Yup, stupid move to open up ANWR. Plenty of other places to drill or find alternative energy from.

[Grizalltheway]

I don't think the Keystone XL is built to carry magma.

[93henfan]

I don't think the Keystone XL is built to carry magma.

That’s why we need the Keystone XXL!

[Grizalltheway]

I don't think the Keystone XL is built to carry magma.

That’s why we need the Keystone XXL!

This thing is gonna be yuge. The biggest, most beautiful pipeline ever. #MAGmA

[Ibanez]

I don't think the Keystone XL is built to carry magma.

Well not if it's liquid hot magma...

[Gil Dobie]

Should be enough gas and oil to get me thru my Senior years.

[93henfan]

Should be enough gas and oil to get me thru my Senior years.

We shale overcome.

[CAA Flagship]

Should be enough gas and oil to get me thru my Senior years.

We shale overcome.

Frackin eh.

[89Hen]

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil and natural gas company is reportedly interested in investing in the fertile Texas Permian Basin shale oil region

Keep your Saudi paws off my oil you damn dirty sand people.

[andy7171]

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil and natural gas company is reportedly interested in investing in the fertile Texas Permian Basin shale oil region

Keep your Saudi paws off my oil you damn dirty sand people.

MOJO POWER!!!!

[andy7171]

Best speech ever!

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[houndawg]

We shale overcome.

Frackin eh.

Boring.

[Ivytalk]

Work on Sunoco’s Marine East shale pipeline was just halted by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection. What’s a few spills and contaminated wells among friends?

[GannonFan]

Work on Sunoco’s Marine East shale pipeline was just halted by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection. What’s a few spills and contaminated wells among friends?

Textbook example of why the EPA (and in this case the state version in the DEP) are always necessary to at least exist (a separate discussion from the idea of the EPA ever-expanding their mandate and pushing regulations further and further just because). Sunoco was trying to gloss over the difficulties of horizontal drilling in limestone formations common to the area. They needed to be held to task to do the drilling the right way and since they weren't holding themselves to that standard then the DEP gladly stepped in and is holding them to that standard for them. Not all companies are bad actors, but Sunoco, in at least this case, was.

[houndawg]

Yup, stupid move to open up ANWR. Plenty of other places to drill or find alternative energy from.

Got a huge fusion reactor just 93,000,000 miles away that produces enough in an hour to run the planet for a year and Chinese solar panels get cheaper every day.

[SDHornet]

Yup, stupid move to open up ANWR. Plenty of other places to drill or find alternative energy from.

Got a huge fusion reactor just 93,000,000 miles away that produces enough in an hour to run the planet for a year and Chinese solar panels get cheaper every day.

That's all good and dandy until it's cloudy. While I'm all for alternative energy, we'll never get completely off fossil fuels unless we go 100% nuclear.

[houndawg]

Got a huge fusion reactor just 93,000,000 miles away that produces enough in an hour to run the planet for a year and Chinese solar panels get cheaper every day.

That's all good and dandy until it's cloudy. While I'm all for alternative energy, we'll never get completely off fossil fuels unless we go 100% nuclear.

collect it above the clouds

[JohnStOnge]

I think it's probably going to end up being a bad move politically. But my understanding is that the people of Alaska want it.

[93henfan]

I think it's probably going to end up being a bad move politically. But my understanding is that the people of Alaska want it.

Of course they do. They get a check from oil.