I don't know anything about talking heads on rant radio, but yeah, I am.
One thing that people don't seem to have a clue about, is how oil is discovered. It's discovered by... gasp... looking for it.
Quick example: ANWR. Do you know why we know there is billions of barrels of oil there? When ANWR was created, when the boobs in congress signed the bill making ANWR federal land, one of the stated goals was to determine the availability of oil and natural gas on the land...
Side note: Yup, you read that right! One of the main reasons they created ANWR was to explore for oil. It wasn't supposed to be the pristine untouched wilderness, and suddenly right wingers showed saying we should drill, it was the goal from the very start when it was originally created.
Anyway: After 7 years the Department of Interior finely made public it's findings that ANWR had billions of barrels of oil, and recommended that Congress open the coastal plains for drilling in 1987.
My point here is... well first that government is horribly slow stupid and idiotic to take 7 years to figure out there was oil there. A company would have had that report finished in 1981... that said...
The point is that the reason we found the oil was because we looked for it. When you look for oil, you tend to find it. Why does Saudi Arabia lead the world in 'know reserves'? Because they fr***kin look for it. They invest in exploration. It's odd but the Saudis see their oil company as a benefit to the country, instead of something to be attacked and hindered like the stupid Americans do... and then wonder why we have an imported oil problem.
Here are some other examples:
An Indiana man is capitalizing on high crude oil prices with his own oil well - in his back yard.
That's right, just some average joe blow American thought to drill his own well, and shockingly struck oil and is earning money off it.
Anthony Young, the owner of a combination gas station and short-order cafe on a state highway in Tennessee, bought a drilling rig, and has drilled 72 wells and struck oil on 57 of them.
So a plain ol Joe Bob in Tennessee, flipping burgers, decides to start drilling and strikes oil 57 times and now runs "Young Oil Corp".
There are quite a few others, but here's the point... they looked, and shockingly... they found. When you look for oil, you tend to find it. Even better, despite the peak oil theory, oil wells shut down, considered exhausted oil wells, are now the hottest thing in the industry. They are opening old wells to find them filled again.
My point is this. I believe it's entirely possible that the US could be 100% oil independent. I believe there is a real possibility that we can drill our way out of imported oil. Again, maybe not. But here is the kicker... we don't know. We have prevented and hindered our oil companies to the point that most are not willing to even invest in oil exploration in the US because every single time they find any, they get eco-nuts filing law suits, Congress declaring it a wild life refuge, and stupid conspiracy nuts running around saying BigOil has everyone paid off.
Our own oil industry is funding oil exploration in other countries!! All because of our own stupidity! More infurating, China is capitalizing on our oil finds! Our companies can't drill off shore, but China has an oil rig sitting off the coast of Cuba, drilling for oil we found! China wouldn't even know the oil was there if we hadn't explored for it, yet we can't get it and they are? What is wrong with United States of Stupidity?! Communist Socialist China doesn't seem to be worried about destroying the environment.
