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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2012, 01:51:49 schrieb Dale: |
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>> Raffaele BELARDI wrote: |
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>>> On 09/18/2012 11:03 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>>> And every day I hear about them finding more oil and gas that they |
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>>> didn't know was there before. |
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> I am sure everybody would love to hear about those findings. Especially the |
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> CEO's of BP, Shell etc. |
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Actually, the former CEO of Shell was on Fox Business not long ago |
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talking about some HUGE finds. He said that we, the USA, are sitting on |
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some of the largest oil fields. Here is one article I found but not |
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sure this is the same one the Shell guy was talking about since this |
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article is a few months old. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/story/2012-05-15/1A-COV-ENERGY-INDEPENDENCE/54977254/1 |
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Quoting from that: |
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"It's no pipe dream. The U.S. is already the world's fastest-growing oil |
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and natural gas producer. Counting the output from Canada and Mexico, |
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North America |
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<http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/Regions/North+America> |
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is "the new Middle East," Citigroup analysts declare in a recent report." |
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Note it said fastest growing producer. You have to find it and be able |
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to get it up before you can produce it. Yea, one day we will run out |
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but that's a good long ways off. We could get hit by some asteroid or |
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something that just completely destroys the planet and everything on it, |
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including all that oil and gas that people want to save up on. |
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Have you heard about the new wells being drilled in North Dakota by any |
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chance? They are drilling for oil like crazy up there. That is just |
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one that I recall seeing on the news a good bit recently. There are |
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plenty of other finds. |
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> Fact is, we are running out. The stuff that is found is either very hard to get |
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> - or not very much. Oh, and very little to start with. Consider current |
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> consumption. |
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Fact is, the same could be said for the Sun too. Science already says |
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it will run out of fuel one day. Solar doesn't work without sunlight. |
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You can't grow corn or anything to make "green" fuel either. There is |
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always going to be someone claiming we are running out of something. |
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Then, we find more of it and the process continues. Heck, we can't even |
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run out of the flu bug and everyone wants to run out of that. |
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As for it being hard to get to, with new tools and knowledge that is |
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being used, they can get to places that 20 years ago we could never |
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dream of. Once you get a oil pipe in the ground, that thing can produce |
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for years, even decades. It's not like you have to drill a new one for |
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each week or month. Heck, I have seen people talking on TV about oil |
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wells that were drilled way back in the 40's or 50's that still produce |
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lots of oil. Once you get the pipe there, it's not hard anymore. |
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>> Everything is a limited resource |
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>> including sunlight. If we are going to live thinking the end is |
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>> tomorrow, then we are not going to have a life worth living. |
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> then turn off your computer. Have everything constantly on IS living like there |
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> is no tomorrow. If you want a tomorrow, start energy saving a bit. |
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Sorry, not convinced. I let my computer do work for me and I find it |
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reasonable to pay for. |
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>> Reminds me of a quote I heard a little while ago. 'We shouldn't eat to |
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>> live, we should live to eat.' It was something like that. I think I |
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>> got it right since I didn't exactly write it down. They were talking |
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>> about food but still. If you live, you have to use something. |
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> and because of some stupid, unrelated quote it is ok to be wasteful? |
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> You love quotes? Here is one: |
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> Waste not, want not. |
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I'm not wasting anything. I just chose to let my puter work for me not |
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you. I'm not one that is going to be told that I can't use something |
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that belongs to me in my own chosen way. That is just NOT going to |
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work. I chose to leave my system running and that is my decision and |
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mine alone. You make your decision and I'll make mine. I'm not going |
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to tell you to leave yours on, don't tell me to turn mine off either. |
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I'll respect yours, you respect mine. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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