ffs, alaska has more oil than most people even dream of.
Whats funny is in about five more years, most of our cars and such will be ran off other means.
Most american oil will goto producing LONG lasting lubrication, plastics and such. Most engines will not create half the friction todays engines do, most moving parts being suspended with magnetic forces, making them total friction free.
Electric engines, fuel cells and magnetics will be the future.
Carbon fibers and such will be replacing metal.
Your country's can keep at it with engine's that burn thru oil like none other, digging up your part of the earth, for your metals.
Thats why the american scrap metal is at such a boom nowa'days, not for us to refine and use, but for us to cut up, place on trains ship them out to our docks,and to sell to you countrys who cant or wont refine these substances for themselfs.
That or,thru out your countrys history they used all those resources to make and build tanks,planes,bombs,guns,ammo and the likes to help fund your global agenda.
Not taking into account your failures and the cost of resources you thought would make it all worthwhile.
No matter the reason, alot of countrys simply cannot reproduce the things they use to even 20 years ago.
The saying is "Where their are the means, there is the way."
well, without such means you have no way.
That also said, utah itself can product more cement, sand, metal from its ground than most other nations combined. Our resources come from active mountians who are still to this day pushing up unlimited amounts of resources, while the rest of the world's has run out long long ago.
Willing to bet, if the russians knew their future, it would have been a cold day in hell before they sold alaska.
Same thing for the british, hell the resources alone would have made this place worth sending every soldier they had,to steam roll the people, and keep it for themselfs.
Then again, the future is not forsaken, maby they realy will find the resources to pull there nations out of the sinkhole it is in, or maby they will simply start leeching other nations oil supplys from them, starting a totaly new global war. only time will tell.
Sorry to say it probably wont be american soldiers, or russian soldiers.
But global oil company's. And that is probably even worst, cause they will bend EVERYONE over the table for a nice time of good ol' money lovinz'
Even so, is the fact the ones who are down the most, will have to give the most to get what they need, shame.
Enjoy yourself's