Biden leaped in on Wednesday to block oil leases in ANWR from sale but Trump beat Biden to the punch and sold 9 leases prior to the 20th. I hope this defangs the Biden order to stop. Why should you care? If you care about the poor and workers, they need fuel. If you care about them, you want fuel prices to remain fair priced. Even with the panic of CV19 promoted by Democrats, fuel prices have remained fairly priced. I hope that Biden does not mess this up. Who has thought fuel prices are too high or conversely too low? https://www.adn.com/business-econom...leases-sold-for-anwr-oil-and-gas-development/
I say use foreign oil, it's cheaper and when they run out, we will still have our reserves, you care about low gas prices right? you care about the poor?
I posted this to a different forum today to see how it flies here and there. So far you are number 1 in reply here but over their the Democrats are attacking me. I am asked why I do not care about the environment. First oil drilling has come a long ways. Those old movies of oil flying skyward are over. Long gone. Drilling has advanced light years. We should never depend on others for oil for the simple reason that here in the USA we do not experience bombs falling whereas over there they do experience them falling. I am one who thinks perhaps oil is still being created in our Earth. Thomas Gold in his book The Deep Hot Biosphere first laid it out. Abstract Twenty-five years ago this month, Thomas Gold published a seminal manuscript suggesting the presence of a “deep, hot biosphere” in the Earth’s crust. Since this publication, a considerable amount of attention has been given to the study of deep biospheres, their role in geochemical cycles, and their potential to inform on the origin of life and its potential outside of Earth. Overwhelming evidence now supports the presence of a deep biosphere ubiquitously distributed on Earth in both terrestrial and marine settings. Furthermore, it has become apparent that much of this life is dependent on lithogenically sourced high-energy compounds to sustain productivity. A vast diversity of uncultivated microorganisms has been detected in subsurface environments, and we show that H2, CH4, and CO feature prominently in many of their predicted metabolisms. Despite 25 years of intense study, key questions remain on life in the deep subsurface, including whether it is endemic and the extent of its involvement in the anaerobic formation and degradation of hydrocarbons. Emergent data from cultivation and next-generation sequencing approaches continue to provide promising new hints to answer these questions. As Gold suggested, and as has become increasingly evident, to better understand the subsurface is critical to further understanding the Earth, life, the evolution of life, and the potential for life elsewhere.
"We should never depend on others for oil for the simple reason that here in the USA we do not experience bombs falling whereas over there they do experience them falling." I agree, we should move towards more sustainable sources of energy we should also keep our oil in reserve for when there is a shortage, so we do not have to depend on others for oil
never said they could, they are preparing us for a transition, but your right, current batter technology is not there yet but depending 100% on our own oil like you want won't save us either....
Cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline starts Biden and Canada on the wrong foot Opinion by Michael Taube
My position is not to depend 100 percent on our own oil. I do not follow what you want to say above? Batter Technology? Not familiar with that.
the 'y' key must not of pressed, I was saying we need better batter technology, but it's coming the first car needed roads, people argued for horses back then too, but technology keeps moving forward and I agree, my position is not to 100% used foreign oil either
Shipping costs from foreign sources do not bother you? What other costs are included in foreign petroleum?
That is correct to care if we shut down our fields to suck dry that from Foreign sources. Biden does not mind laying off thousands of workers.
the cost is the cost, shipping is included in the cost, so is tarrifs, ect... if foreign oil is cheaper, then we should use it, as with all natural resources that we may someday be short of - oil is a finite resource
Not sure there is any near term risk of them being much developed. Several of the leases were taken out by Alaska itself as a backstop, Knik Arm Services doesn't drill but bought the lease on speculation, and Regenerate Alaska is an Australian owned firm that just expanded on land it already owns next to Exxon on the fringe of ANWR. ( https://www.ktoo.org/2021/01/11/dri...t-steps-after-first-arctic-refuge-lease-sale/ )
That means the state won 10-year oil leases for nine pieces of land by submitting the minimum offer that the federal government would accept: $25 an acre. “We are very happy that we were able to win some of the tracts in this case,” Alan Weitzner, AIDEA’s executive director, said in an interview Thursday. “We would have preferred to see a more competitive bid put in place,” he said. “But I do think that there was a lot of uncertainty related to it.” Drilling for oil in the refuge faces an aggressive opposition campaign. It’s also expensive, and uncertainty surrounds the future of oil demand — as well as just how much crude is actually trapped under the land. Weitzner said he hopes the state’s decision to step in removes at least some of the uncertainty the oil industry might have about drilling in the coastal plain.
Thank you for quoting me a section of an article I already read and posted the link to. Do you now have a point?