Oil changed... found this

Shut down the commodities markets. Oil & gasoline prices would drop dramatically.

Twenty years ago, oil wasn't on the commodities markets. Supply and demand determined the prices. Now, it's speculators.

Track the money...

I remember reading a story about how we were running out of oil and were going to face serious shortages within 10 years. As I recall it was a very good article, with largely accurate facts and figures, and in a reputable publication.

It was also published in 1917.

We aren't running out of oil anytime soon, especially with the higher prices we are paying now (although they won't last).

Of course it would help if we had reasonable politicians.

I had heard that Siberia has more oil than Saudia Arabia EVER did. Why the Russians aren't tapping this I don't know...

Like maybe if you hated your neighbors and couldn't get them to leave town? ;^)

Earle

They have most of the worlds supply of natural gas deposits certainly.

In most cases you would be faced with greenies that won't let you sell your home at any price as long as they can sell someone else's.

Been a while, but thought our shale reserves up across eastern Montana, mid Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, etc. were huger than anything else except China areas of similar terrain. In many places you can see the thick layers along the high desert cliffs.

L.W.(Bill) Hughes III proclaimed:

There are incredible amounts of methane deposits along the coasts. One trick would be to get at them without triggering gas avalanches.

Probably politically easier to mine cow farts though.

Dave Milne proclaimed: