China is funding a 62 mile sea tunnel
March 10th, 2019 at 2:02:14 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
MENA? We are not going to take over Venezuela. The USA is currently exporting oil. We export more oil products than Saudi Arabia. Yes, we import oil because of how our refineries are geared, but that will change. I see North America from AK to Panama becoming its own oil market, isolated from the rest of the world, for the next generation. Canadian oil sands and USA fracking, gotta love them. Let South America become a socialist toilet if that is how they want to go.
Keep out illegals and those who want to sneak in with them. The President is a fink. |
March 10th, 2019 at 2:48:25 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Yes, control over the currency that Iraq, Libya and Iran sell their oil in, is the largest contributing factor as to why we went to war. As soon as Suddam or Muhammar announce support for the gold backed Dinar, bombs started dropping. Syria is a bit different involving ng pipelines to undermine Russian gas going to Europe. We don't really care what religion they are, or whether they stone people to death or behead them. We are going to replace their government, partially to control the worlds largest oil deposits. Lets export Venezuelan and Guyanan oil first, and save ours for national security or hard times. imo. I have a relative working for Exxon in Guyana, Guayana's GDP is rapidly going up, it's worth a read. Also it's next door to Venezuela, and her huge rare earth deposits. Eventually, we need to flush that turd. Meanwhile, how is it that a single product country [SA ,a brutal monarchy full of radical Islamists ] is any better than another single product country [Venezuela]? I have family working in the oil patch in both AK and Guyana, finding crude on a daily basis. As far as Canadian tar sands, doesn't that require a barrel price around 80$ to break even? Also, friends working in the Balkan say the finds are plentiful but the production curve is short. But Exxon is talking about a pipeline in the Permian from E. New Mexico and W. Texas to the Gulf, so there must be something there. Oil company's as you know think a little different, but I think the shale plays are only going gang busters because of cheap credit. Sure, keep out illegals, it just seems more likely to achieve that goal by removing their incentive. We need the cheap labor. Need to train millions of them in senior care, to take care of our aging boomers. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
March 10th, 2019 at 3:32:40 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
You are right on cheap credit, but it works. The tech keeps knocking the break even price lower. Tar sands were such a threat that SA duped the enviros in the USA to protest Keystone XL, tying it up for years. IMHO shale holds us a generation, at which time we will be able to drill super deep. Oil is probably formed beneath the crust and seeps up. If we can figure out that then we can last forever. The President is a fink. |
March 10th, 2019 at 4:56:07 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | There are places where oil is the best technology and others not. I read where Russia is building a super giant nuclear ice breaker. Big happenings going on above the arctic circle that Russia is gearing up for. We've got 3 tired diesel powered smaller ice breakers. I hate to see shipping waste oil propelling ships, big ones should be nuclear. I'm pro nuclear power. I believe in light rail mass transport where traffic is just to congested, powered by electricity created from ng or nuclear. Maybe oil is being ground up from the earths crust? There does seem to be a lot of it. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
March 11th, 2019 at 2:39:21 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
That is my thought. That deep down the heat and pressure force long H chains to form, the basis for oil. Then it seeps up. The formations it is found are there because that rock allowed the seepage and trapped it. Makes more sense than dead dinosaurs. As I have said here a few times, the weight of all the oil means it could not really have come from life forms. The President is a fink. |
March 11th, 2019 at 7:18:25 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | It is 610 miles from Talinn to Warsaw, and Google says you can drive it in 12.5 hours (49mph), but there is no train . |
December 8th, 2019 at 4:59:39 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
December 9th, 2019 at 5:14:24 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-13/let-china-build-longest-undersea-finland-estonia-tunnel Let China Build The Longest Undersea Rail Tunnel The Tallinn-Helsinki link offers Europe more geopolitical advantages than risks. By Leonid Bershidsky August 13, 2019, 9:10 AM EDT The biggest current Belt and Road project in Europe is a high-speed railroad link between Budapest and Belgrade. The EU has watched the project jealously. Its investigation of whether Hungary has followed its competition and anti-corruption rules when awarding contracts for the railroad modernization has held up the construction. Behind the misgivings is a geostrategic concern that China isn’t just seeking more convenient transport connections for its exports and imports but building up influence in EU member states, threatening the bloc’s unity and shared values. shared values? Last time I checked Serbia was not about to enter the EU any time soon. |