"Peak oil" doesn't mean we've run out of oil; it means the supply is falling behind demand. Conoco has been warning that shale is topping out.
So, that is, it goes for the shale in places it's "legal" to drill. Much shale exists in Federal land which the Progressives wrested back from several Western states in the early 1900s. States have to beg the Feds for permission to drill there. More oil exists up in Alberta but Americans need a pipeline or trucks for that. The Biden Administration has blocked the Keystone pipeline.
Americans (and western Canadans) could use a pipeline or ships to get oil out of Alaska, sort of the neo-Western state. This Administration looks to be blocking that too UPDATE 3/12 or not, who knows, I don't.
The Baghestan is (generally) a pro-nuclear blog so I don't much mind that oil isn't drilled-for. However. Where is that nuclear-power?
Also: the fracking we've done so far should be good for expanding the reach of geothermal beyond Idaho / Wyoming / Montana (and Alaska again). Where's that?
Oil is going to be with us for awhile so if we're concerned about wildlife-preserves then how about: free up preserve A with the oil and create a new preserve B where the oil isn't economic anymore. Or maybe this plan makes too much sense for clownworld.
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