Originally posted by: fisheerman
Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Originally posted by: fisheerman
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Holy crap, there is oil in Alaska? That's the first I've heard of it.
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You realize this has been debated for YEARS, right? I listened to 2:07. Everyone knows there's oil in Alaska and a lot of it. Lowering gas to $1.50 within a year, how? We all also know that to get the infrastructure in place to drill this oil takes years, too. This guy is not shattering anything in 2:07, at which point I turned it off.
So what's the holdup?
Why ain't we blazing another pipeline across Alaska?
With all the construction workers who ain't got jobs in this country we could probably find a few people wanting to work.
Sigh, if only everything was such a simple matter. It's not that easy, there are many factors to consider, including the environment. Even then, it's only a short term answer instead of pushing to get away from oil as much as possible altogether, which is the long term answer.
yeah 200 years is pretty short.........
why not mine the oil and put the 200 year clock running as the end date for oil dependancy. Just seems like a better alternative than crushing the economy with overpriced fuel while we wait on battery technology to come around.......
Also I am sure everybody on here is extremely educated about the amount of oil in Alaska but I know a lot of people that have no clue that there is that much oil in that region.
I've always heard that there was oil there but was kinda shocked to find out just how much it was.
So my thoughts were why are we buying oil on the open market from OPEC and other turd world nations when we have so much here?