A BILLION barrels of oil under Utah!

[batmang]

awesome! now lower our damn gas prices!

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
how can we find any oil when it is supposed to all vanish in 20/25/40 years (depending on your FUD)?

yeah, the tree huggers told me we are about to run out of oil and i have to ride a bicycle to work from now on

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
how can we find any oil when it is supposed to all vanish in 20/25/40 years (depending on your FUD)?

That's like asking, "How can you be alive when the doctor said you've got 2 years to live?"

You == not understanding the concept of time.

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: ahurtt

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Buy some stock

Wolverine Gas and Oil is a privately held Grand Rapids business with just 25 employees. The company says found what is being called the largest onshore discovery in at least 30 years.

You = Smart

 

[Analog]

Make it part of the strategic reserve.

 

[EvilYoda]

It's been said, but that's great for Michigan...I don't know how Grand Rapids is doing these days, probably can't be as bad as this side of the state

 

[Riceball]

Originally posted by: Reck
is a billion barrels a lot? call me crazy but i think that's a bad thing...it's good that people have an incentive to not buy big ass polluting suvs and stuff. higher gas prices mean the auto industry will start producing more effecient automobiles.

The US consumes roughly 20 million barrels per day. So this discovery would last for 50 days if it was our sole source of oil.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Damn, it had to be Utah didn't it?

What's the big deal?

1) We send the troops in there
2) Kill a bunch of mormons
3) Take over the state.
4) ...
5) Profit!

 

[mercanucaribe]

By the way, I was studying for my Mountain Geoecology final exam a year and a half ago with a geology major, and another geology major came in the library and started talking to him. The guy I was studying with said he was going to research oil under some huge folds in Utah. Maybe he's getting rich now.

 

[no0b]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Damn, it had to be Utah didn't it?

What's the big deal?

1) We send the troops in there
2) Kill a bunch of mormons
3) Take over the state.
4) Sell normal beer in every store
5) ...
6) Profit!

Fixed it for you.

SLC Punk all the way.

 

[Malladine]

Originally posted by: Reck
is a billion barrels a lot? call me crazy but i think that's a bad thing...it's good that people have an incentive to not buy big ass polluting suvs and stuff. higher gas prices mean the auto industry will start producing more effecient automobiles.

:thumbsup: aint gonna stop me from buying decent mileage cars only

 

[astrosfan90]

http://energy.senate.gov/legislation/energybill/charts/chart8.pdf

 

[cyclohexane]

a billion barrels? That's a lot, seeing that OPEC only produces a few million barrels a day.

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow

Originally posted by: ahurtt

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Buy some stock

Wolverine Gas and Oil is a privately held Grand Rapids business with just 25 employees. The company says found what is being called the largest onshore discovery in at least 30 years.

You = Smart

Hahah! Thank you I think that is the nicest thing anybody ever said to me on a forum.

 

[TheNinja]

When drill for billions of barrels when you can have.......millions!

 

[Baked]

We'll use it up in one day.

 

[polloloco81]

The speculation that we'll run out of oil within 50-60 years is total BS, according to the petrolium engineers I talked to. It may be harder to find oil on continental land, but we have barely even tapped into the deep sea oil deposits. Once it becomes uneconomical to drill for oil on land, companies will turn to the sea floor.

But that's total good news that this deposit was discovered. I'm sure there'll be plenty more of these around the world. Maybe eventually we can say "f*ck off!" to all of those oil tycoon SOBs in the Mideast called OPEC.

 

[Eli]

Well....

So much for the theory that we used most all the oil in the US up in the 70s, lol.

But it's true, a billion barrels isn't that much.....

Actually, you know ... this should be seen as more of a scary thing, than anything.

We're getting excited about 1 billion barrels.......

 

[RU482]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
Gas prices are influenced by speculation. Everytime a bomb goes off in Bagdad, the price jumps. This may have the opposite effect.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

oh man, that was...ahahahahahahahahaha

 

[joecool]

Originally posted by: Codewiz

Originally posted by: Crazyfool

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
how can we find any oil when it is supposed to all vanish in 20/25/40 years (depending on your FUD)?

That's the thing... you never know where you are gonna find oil.

Anyone who says we are gonna run out in X years simply doesn't understand the oil business.

And the fact that old "used" up oil fields are suddenly coming back to life. The whole oil running out is nonsense.

boy, we've got a real smart bunch in here ... if you believe them i guess we'll NEVER run out of oil. since the volume of the earth is finite the only possible source of this infinite supply must be some sort of rift in space/time that connects earth to an infinite number of other planets with oil. nice!

 

[Lobstar]

Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Buy some stock

Wolverine Gas and Oil is a privately held Grand Rapids business with just 25 employees.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: joecool

Originally posted by: Codewiz

Originally posted by: Crazyfool

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
how can we find any oil when it is supposed to all vanish in 20/25/40 years (depending on your FUD)?

That's the thing... you never know where you are gonna find oil.

Anyone who says we are gonna run out in X years simply doesn't understand the oil business.

And the fact that old "used" up oil fields are suddenly coming back to life. The whole oil running out is nonsense.

boy, we've got a real smart bunch in here ... if you believe them i guess we'll NEVER run out of oil. since the volume of the earth is finite the only possible source of this infinite supply must be some sort of rift in space/time that connects earth to an infinite number of other planets with oil. nice!

LOL

Well, to be fair, they probably mean "In our lifetimes"....

But I digress. When you get old, you start worrying about future generations. So it isn't going to be any more comforting when we're in an urn on the mantle and the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

 

[Deadtrees]

Just wait 'till France invades Utah.