Oil ?

[kamori]

A lot of  folks can't understand how we came    to  have an oil shortage here in our  country.
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Well, there's a very simple  answer.
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Nobody bothered to check the oil.
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We  just didn't know we were getting low.
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The reason for that  is purely geographical.
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Our OIL is located  in:
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ALASKA
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California
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Coastal  Florida
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Coastal Louisiana
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North  Dakota
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Wyoming
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Colorado
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Kansas
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Oklahoma
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Pennsylvania
And
Texas
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Our dipsticks are located in DC

[MaSonZ]

Now you thinking with your dipstick, Jimmy!

[oakranger]

A lot of  folks can't understand how we came    to  have an oil shortage here in our  country.
~~~
Well, there's a very simple  answer.
~~~
Nobody bothered to check the oil.
~~~
We  just didn't know we were getting low.
~~~
The reason for that  is purely geographical.
~~~
Our OIL is located  in:
~~~
ALASKA
~~~
California
~~~
Coastal  Florida
~~~
Coastal Louisiana
~~~
North  Dakota
~~~
Wyoming
~~~
Colorado
~~~
Kansas
~~~
Oklahoma
~~~
Pennsylvania
And
Texas
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Our dipsticks are located in DC

Is this something new that you discovered?

[Penguin]

The only problem is that the oil present would not justify ruining the Everglades, Alaskan Frontier, Great Plains, and Golden Coast.  We have enough oil to last us for centuries, but it's all locked away in 5-6 gallon pockets.  If we pursued it, we'd expend more energy than we'd extract, and be left with a sooty, charred landscape.

-Penguin

[F22RaptorDude]

The only problem is that the oil present would not justify ruining the Everglades, Alaskan Frontier, Great Plains, and Golden Coast.  We have enough oil to last us for centuries, but it's all locked away in 5-6 gallon pockets.  If we pursued it, we'd expend more energy than we'd extract, and be left with a sooty, charred landscape.

-Penguin

Exactly, you would ruin marshland and all the nature, in the end it would actually be worse then helpful. Am i right Penguin?

[grizz441]

The only problem is that the oil present would not justify ruining the Everglades, Alaskan Frontier, Great Plains, and Golden Coast.  We have enough oil to last us for centuries, but it's all locked away in 5-6 gallon pockets.  If we pursued it, we'd expend more energy than we'd extract, and be left with a sooty, charred landscape.

-Penguin

When gas costs 8 dollars a gallon we'll see if you back off that stance.  

[Motherland]

I don't  think we have very much oil anymore... just coal...

[MaSonZ]

When gas costs 8 dollars a gallon we'll see if you back off that stance.  

+1. As much as I would hate to see our NAtional beauty ruined, were gonna butcher our economy more if the gas prices are $8 a gallon. after all who wants to spend THAT much money on a single gallon of fuel?

[Plawranc]

Hydrogen hybrid propulsion should be pursued with as much money as we can spare.

[MaSonZ]

Hydrogen hybrid propulsion should be pursued with as much money as we can spare.

which..is literally....less then $0. were so far in debt its not even funny.

[Plawranc]

Then, I guess oils gonna run out.

isnt the US in a 1 trillion dollar deficit?

[grizz441]

Then, I guess oils gonna run out.

isnt the US in a 1 trillion dollar deficit?

1 trillion per year.   

[F22RaptorDude]

Then, I guess oils gonna run out.

isnt the US in a 1 trillion dollar deficit?

Last i checked, the US was in debt by 14 Trillion, seriously people get it together.

[Tupac]

Helium 3.

[Penguin]

Exactly, you would ruin marshland and all the nature, in the end it would actually be worse then helpful. Am i right Penguin?

Absolutely.  I didn't mean to scare you, I apologize.

+1. As much as I would hate to see our NAtional beauty ruined, were gonna butcher our economy more if the gas prices are $8 a gallon. after all who wants to spend THAT much money on a single gallon of fuel?

Or we could drive electric vehicles and use mass transit and mass freight.  It would cost significantly less to run our economy on that than oil.  You seem to be fixated on using a non-renewable resource indefinitely. 

-Penguin