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America Leads the World in Untapped Fossil Fuel Reserves
Written By : Dave Blount

In light of the extent to which we are at placed at the mercy of largely hostile nations for our energy supply, you would never guess who has the greatest reserves of fossil fuels. We do.

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From the Energy Tribune:

America’s combined energy resources are, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service (CSR), the largest on earth. They eclipse Saudi Arabia (3rd), China (4th) and Canada (6th) combined — and that’s without including America’s shale oil deposits and, in the future, the potentially astronomic impact of methane hydrates.

Having the resources is one thing. Being sufficiently free of tyranny to access those resources is something else. As Senator James Inhofe observes,

“The Obama administration has made a conscious policy choice to raise energy prices, accomplished in good measure by restricting access to domestic energy supplies. … We could help bring affordable energy to consumers, create new jobs, and grow the economy if the Obama administration would simply get out of the way so America can realize its true energy potential.”

But who is going to hear Inhofe when the media will ignore most anything that doesn’t support its laughable “green energy” ideology?

Few people will hear about this either:

In mid-March, a new study by Verso Consultancy estimates that for every new green job created by diverting public money into renewable energy projects in the UK, 3.7 British jobs were destroyed.

Meanwhile US energy policy persists in pursuing the myth that renewables are the economically viable future, with fossil fuels already, as the president said in January, “yesterday’s energy”.

Moonbats are particularly hostile toward coal. Obama campaigned on promises to drive the industry out of business. This graph may explain why:

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The USA has enough recoverable coal to last for centuries. Yet our rulers want to force us to rely on absurd windmills, which uncoincidentally were cutting edge technology in the age of serfdom.

The only thing standing between America and a future even better than our past is the leftist kakistocracy that controls both the government and the media.

On a tip from Oiao. Hat tips: Hot Air, Free Republic. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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  • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

    I’ve long been frustrated that the US doesn’t exploit its natural gas reserves more aggressively.

    • Soldout

      Where do you live? The industry will happily frack in your back yard for natural gas, environmental costs be damned:

      http://www.grist.org/article/at-the-birth-of-the-21st-century-appalachia

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Heh, Grist.

      • President Friedman

        There are some potential issues with fracking, but not insurmountable ones. One issue in the Marcellus field to the northeast is that drilling is such a new enterprise there, there is actually too LITTLE regulation (much less so than in OK and TX where they have been frakking for decades). Any kind of deep drillng runs the risk of dredging up toxic and/or radioactive substances from deep within the earth, and the question of where to dump these wastes is always an issue, and one that the government does need to be involved in. A lot of friends from my neck of the woods have spent the last two or three years working in the Marcellus fields, and when they are home it is always a topic of conversation that they can’t believe how lax the dumping regulations are in that part of the country. You hear stories about water wells being contaminated, but most often that doesn’t happen because of the drilling (the shale is usually a mile or more beneath the water table) but because of (legal yet unethical) waste disposal. The oil industry will squeel as regulations are implemented (and the liberal northeast will likely go far overboard with regulations), but it sounds to me like some regulation is needed there in order to keep people safe, and to keep the frakking process from becoming universally demonized.

      • President Friedman

        There are some potential issues with fracking, but not insurmountable ones. One issue in the Marcellus field to the northeast is that drilling is such a new enterprise there, there is actually too LITTLE regulation (much less so than in OK and TX where they have been frakking for decades). Any kind of deep drillng runs the risk of dredging up toxic and/or radioactive substances from deep within the earth, and the question of where to dump these wastes is always an issue, and one that the government does need to be involved in. A lot of friends from my neck of the woods have spent the last two or three years working in the Marcellus fields, and when they are home it is always a topic of conversation that they can’t believe how lax the dumping regulations are in that part of the country. You hear stories about water wells being contaminated, but most often that doesn’t happen because of the drilling (the shale is usually a mile or more beneath the water table) but because of (legal yet unethical) waste disposal. The oil industry will squeel as regulations are implemented (and the liberal northeast will likely go far overboard with regulations), but it sounds to me like some regulation is needed there in order to keep people safe, and to keep the frakking process from becoming universally demonized.

      • President Friedman

        There are some potential issues with fracking, but not insurmountable ones. One issue in the Marcellus field to the northeast is that drilling is such a new enterprise there, there is actually too LITTLE regulation (much less so than in OK and TX where they have been frakking for decades). Any kind of deep drillng runs the risk of dredging up toxic and/or radioactive substances from deep within the earth, and the question of where to dump these wastes is always an issue, and one that the government does need to be involved in. A lot of friends from my neck of the woods have spent the last two or three years working in the Marcellus fields, and when they are home it is always a topic of conversation that they can’t believe how lax the dumping regulations are in that part of the country. You hear stories about water wells being contaminated, but most often that doesn’t happen because of the drilling (the shale is usually a mile or more beneath the water table) but because of (legal yet unethical) waste disposal. The oil industry will squeel as regulations are implemented (and the liberal northeast will likely go far overboard with regulations), but it sounds to me like some regulation is needed there in order to keep people safe, and to keep the frakking process from becoming universally demonized.

      • President Friedman

        There are some potential issues with fracking, but not insurmountable ones. One issue in the Marcellus field to the northeast is that drilling is such a new enterprise there, there is actually too LITTLE regulation (much less so than in OK and TX where they have been frakking for decades). Any kind of deep drillng runs the risk of dredging up toxic and/or radioactive substances from deep within the earth, and the question of where to dump these wastes is always an issue, and one that the government does need to be involved in. A lot of friends from my neck of the woods have spent the last two or three years working in the Marcellus fields, and when they are home it is always a topic of conversation that they can’t believe how lax the dumping regulations are in that part of the country. You hear stories about water wells being contaminated, but most often that doesn’t happen because of the drilling (the shale is usually a mile or more beneath the water table) but because of (legal yet unethical) waste disposal. The oil industry will squeel as regulations are implemented (and the liberal northeast will likely go far overboard with regulations), but it sounds to me like some regulation is needed there in order to keep people safe, and to keep the frakking process from becoming universally demonized.

      • President Friedman

        There are some potential issues with fracking, but not insurmountable ones. One issue in the Marcellus field to the northeast is that drilling is such a new enterprise there, there is actually too LITTLE regulation (much less so than in OK and TX where they have been frakking for decades). Any kind of deep drillng runs the risk of dredging up toxic and/or radioactive substances from deep within the earth, and the question of where to dump these wastes is always an issue, and one that the government does need to be involved in. A lot of friends from my neck of the woods have spent the last two or three years working in the Marcellus fields, and when they are home it is always a topic of conversation that they can’t believe how lax the dumping regulations are in that part of the country. You hear stories about water wells being contaminated, but most often that doesn’t happen because of the drilling (the shale is usually a mile or more beneath the water table) but because of (legal yet unethical) waste disposal. The oil industry will squeel as regulations are implemented (and the liberal northeast will likely go far overboard with regulations), but it sounds to me like some regulation is needed there in order to keep people safe, and to keep the frakking process from becoming universally demonized.

      • President Friedman

        There are some potential issues with fracking, but not insurmountable ones. One issue in the Marcellus field to the northeast is that drilling is such a new enterprise there, there is actually too LITTLE regulation (much less so than in OK and TX where they have been frakking for decades). Any kind of deep drillng runs the risk of dredging up toxic and/or radioactive substances from deep within the earth, and the question of where to dump these wastes is always an issue, and one that the government does need to be involved in. A lot of friends from my neck of the woods have spent the last two or three years working in the Marcellus fields, and when they are home it is always a topic of conversation that they can’t believe how lax the dumping regulations are in that part of the country. You hear stories about water wells being contaminated, but most often that doesn’t happen because of the drilling (the shale is usually a mile or more beneath the water table) but because of (legal yet unethical) waste disposal. The oil industry will squeel as regulations are implemented (and the liberal northeast will likely go far overboard with regulations), but it sounds to me like some regulation is needed there in order to keep people safe, and to keep the frakking process from becoming universally demonized.

      • President Friedman

        There are some potential issues with fracking, but not insurmountable ones. One issue in the Marcellus field to the northeast is that drilling is such a new enterprise there, there is actually too LITTLE regulation (much less so than in OK and TX where they have been frakking for decades). Any kind of deep drillng runs the risk of dredging up toxic and/or radioactive substances from deep within the earth, and the question of where to dump these wastes is always an issue, and one that the government does need to be involved in. A lot of friends from my neck of the woods have spent the last two or three years working in the Marcellus fields, and when they are home it is always a topic of conversation that they can’t believe how lax the dumping regulations are in that part of the country. You hear stories about water wells being contaminated, but most often that doesn’t happen because of the drilling (the shale is usually a mile or more beneath the water table) but because of (legal yet unethical) waste disposal. The oil industry will squeel as regulations are implemented (and the liberal northeast will likely go far overboard with regulations), but it sounds to me like some regulation is needed there in order to keep people safe, and to keep the frakking process from becoming universally demonized.

    • Soldout

      Where do you live? The industry will happily frack in your back yard for natural gas, environmental costs be damned:

      http://www.grist.org/article/at-the-birth-of-the-21st-century-appalachia

  • Anonymous

    Although if we end up with the last reserves of oil on the planet after helping pump the rest of the world dry that could be a very lucrative position.

    And I would be willing to listen to arguments to that affect: use foreign oil so we can save our domestic supplies for emergency uses.

    But we should still start developing it now.

    • Anonymous

      Greed takes many forms, doesn’t it?

      • Anonymous

        You would rob everyone blind for your own benefit and you dare call anyone else greedy?

        If we exploit our own fields we all benefit.

        • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

          yeah his greed is bald faced, and unlike a capitalist, he doesn’t want to work for or produce anything for the money, just be given it.

        • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

          yeah his greed is bald faced, and unlike a capitalist, he doesn’t want to work for or produce anything for the money, just be given it.

      • Anonymous

        You would rob everyone blind for your own benefit and you dare call anyone else greedy?

        If we exploit our own fields we all benefit.

    • Anonymous

      Greed takes many forms, doesn’t it?

    • Anonymous

      Greed takes many forms, doesn’t it?

    • Anonymous

      Greed takes many forms, doesn’t it?

    • Anonymous

      Greed takes many forms, doesn’t it?

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      In a way, its good we haven’t used it yet because that means we’re very self sufficient for the future, but only if we get on the ball and start tapping into these resources.

      • TheDarkKnight

        .. as much as I’d like to believe that it’s more likely the case that we haven’t used it because we will need it as collateral in the near future when China cuts up our credit cards

      • TheDarkKnight

        .. as much as I’d like to believe that it’s more likely the case that we haven’t used it because we will need it as collateral in the near future when China cuts up our credit cards

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      In a way, its good we haven’t used it yet because that means we’re very self sufficient for the future, but only if we get on the ball and start tapping into these resources.

  • Anonymous

    Now that the fossil fuel industry has pretty much wiped out West Virginia as a state, I hope their next target is where you reside. Let’s see them turn it into a vast dead zone before they move on to the next victim.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YWXM6Q6QGELGTT334IQMWB774Q David

      Perhaps you would prefer to live without electricity.

      • Anonymous

        I wish he would. Then we wouldn’t be inflicted with his idiocy.

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      I can tell you don’t actually live in West Virginia.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YWXM6Q6QGELGTT334IQMWB774Q David

        My wife has relatives from West Virginia. The place is hardly a vast dead zone.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YWXM6Q6QGELGTT334IQMWB774Q David

        My wife has relatives from West Virginia. The place is hardly a vast dead zone.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YWXM6Q6QGELGTT334IQMWB774Q David

        My wife has relatives from West Virginia. The place is hardly a vast dead zone.

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      I can tell you don’t actually live in West Virginia.

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      I can tell you don’t actually live in West Virginia.

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      I can tell you don’t actually live in West Virginia.

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      I can tell you don’t actually live in West Virginia.

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      I can tell you don’t actually live in West Virginia.

    • TheDarkKnight

      California is closer to being wiped out by massive liberally induce debt than West Virginia is by “the fossil fuel industry”…

      Leave your parent’s basement much?

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Yeah you want to see a vast dead zone, visit Detroit.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Yeah you want to see a vast dead zone, visit Detroit.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Yeah you want to see a vast dead zone, visit Detroit.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Yeah you want to see a vast dead zone, visit Detroit.

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Yeah you want to see a vast dead zone, visit Detroit.

    • TheDarkKnight

      California is closer to being wiped out by massive liberally induce debt than West Virginia is by “the fossil fuel industry”…

      Leave your parent’s basement much?

    • TheDarkKnight

      California is closer to being wiped out by massive liberally induce debt than West Virginia is by “the fossil fuel industry”…

      Leave your parent’s basement much?

    • TheDarkKnight

      California is closer to being wiped out by massive liberally induce debt than West Virginia is by “the fossil fuel industry”…

      Leave your parent’s basement much?

    • TheDarkKnight

      California is closer to being wiped out by massive liberally induce debt than West Virginia is by “the fossil fuel industry”…

      Leave your parent’s basement much?

    • TheDarkKnight

      California is closer to being wiped out by massive liberally induce debt than West Virginia is by “the fossil fuel industry”…

      Leave your parent’s basement much?

    • Anonymous

      blame now deceased Kleagle Byrd, D, WV

    • Anonymous

      blame now deceased Kleagle Byrd, D, WV

    • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

      Do you ever post facts or just bald faced lies and hyperbole hoping we’re all too stupid to know the truth?

    • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

      Do you ever post facts or just bald faced lies and hyperbole hoping we’re all too stupid to know the truth?

    • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

      Do you ever post facts or just bald faced lies and hyperbole hoping we’re all too stupid to know the truth?

    • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

      Do you ever post facts or just bald faced lies and hyperbole hoping we’re all too stupid to know the truth?

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    I had a friend in high school who’s father was an executive at Shell and he told us this fact back in the 80′s. I’ve repeated it since to some strange looks. Nice to see it validated.

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    I had a friend in high school who’s father was an executive at Shell and he told us this fact back in the 80′s. I’ve repeated it since to some strange looks. Nice to see it validated.

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    I had a friend in high school who’s father was an executive at Shell and he told us this fact back in the 80′s. I’ve repeated it since to some strange looks. Nice to see it validated.

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    I had a friend in high school who’s father was an executive at Shell and he told us this fact back in the 80′s. I’ve repeated it since to some strange looks. Nice to see it validated.

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    I had a friend in high school who’s father was an executive at Shell and he told us this fact back in the 80′s. I’ve repeated it since to some strange looks. Nice to see it validated.

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    I had a friend in high school who’s father was an executive at Shell and he told us this fact back in the 80′s. I’ve repeated it since to some strange looks. Nice to see it validated.

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