asurfaholic
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I'm sickeningly listening to Waltz around 14 minutes in, but you should start at the beginning. How are these people so stupid? Exporting our oil and gas to Ukraine? Europe? All that would do is raise prices for Americans at the pump and in the home. There isn't going to be any deflationary effect if Trump pursues a policy of "energy dominance" (a term he told Zeldin, his EPA choice), and seeks to drill baby drill (in areas that shouldn't be) for the sake of what, the military and political complex, not for Americans. Keep the oil and gas at home. But no, this isn't what they have in mind at all. They ridiculously think they can drill whatever is left in the American West and up in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and this will somehow challenge Saudi Arabia and Russia as oil producers. Well I got news for you, by the time those new claims will be approved and constructed, the Dems will already be winning in the polls for 2028. If supply can EVER reduce the price of gas/oil in a demand structure this enormous, it can ONLY happen if we don't have 700 bases around the world and seek to sell our new production to the world, as if we can replace Russia and the Middle East.
You've heard enough of me. I'm giving up because our system is so corrupt that only the least qualified, most corrupt and narcissistic asshats can get in political power.
You might have not given up hope yet, but that doesn't make you correct.
How much oil is “left?”
My understanding is that there are vast amounts actually available. As in, we won’t run out soon if the oil is being produced from some of the richer previously not available deposits. It’s not like you slurpy it all up right?
And how big is an actual oil rig? What does drilling do that has significant widespread adverse impacts?
I am not really opposed to drilling set ups. What if Elon musk and his efficiency department

That sounds good to me, of course I don’t see oil as a ridiculously limited resource.
Fracking is a different story.
My biggest gripe about oil is that it feels like it’s the resources of the people of the country. I hate that massive oil companies can simply just take it and control the world with it. I would wish it was more guarded. I get that companies should be able to mine and harvest and profit. It’s something I am super unsettled about.
An economic boom due to strong leadership and deregulation of the market can only be a good thing, right?