At the risk of cooling this hot argument with cold facts, I offer three:
1. The Midcontinuental Riff Zone, an oil pool the size of the Alaskan North Slope ranging from Kanas to the western tip of Lake Superior.
There are oil wells 45 miles west of Des Moines Iowa and I personally witnessed shaker trucks working north of Fort Dodge.
2. Project Plowshare. A joint US-Canadian venture to use atomic energy to free up oil trapped in the Alberta Tar Fields, which hold half the known oil in the world. Detonated 15 Sept 61, this supplied huge quanties of oil resulting in straight run gas at the pump for 17 cents per gallon.
I was in college then and clearly remember filling up my Honda65 with a quarter (and getting a nickel change).
3. A 1972 patent granted to Boise-Cascade for garbage to oil convertion. They used 2 low-boy trucks to haul the cooker to their timer sites where they cooked down timbering waste into diesel fuel and asphalt.
After the patent expired in 1989, University of Arizona built a continuous feed pilot plant that worked just fine. It was reported in Popular Science before a news blackout.
This is the process by which Mother Nature makes oil and the reason oil exploration turned to previously unsuspected places (like the North Sea).
So, when all else fails, tell me the day we run out of Garbage and I'll tell you the day we run out of Oil.
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It appears you are a M$/SCO troll. RTFA. Facts are stubborn things.
At the risk of cooling this hot argument with cold facts, I offer three:
1. The Midcontinuental Riff Zone, an oil pool the size of the Alaskan North Slope ranging from Kanas to the western tip of Lake Superior.
There are oil wells 45 miles west of Des Moines Iowa and I personally witnessed shaker trucks working north of Fort Dodge.
2. Project Plowshare. A joint US-Canadian venture to use atomic energy to free up oil trapped in the Alberta Tar Fields, which hold half the known oil in the world. Detonated 15 Sept 61, this supplied huge quanties of oil resulting in straight run gas at the pump for 17 cents per gallon.
I was in college then and clearly remember filling up my Honda65 with a quarter (and getting a nickel change).
3. A 1972 patent granted to Boise-Cascade for garbage to oil convertion. They used 2 low-boy trucks to haul the cooker to their timer sites where they cooked down timbering waste into diesel fuel and asphalt.
After the patent expired in 1989, University of Arizona built a continuous feed pilot plant that worked just fine. It was reported in Popular Science before a news blackout.
This is the process by which Mother Nature makes oil and the reason oil exploration turned to previously unsuspected places (like the North Sea).
So, when all else fails, tell me the day we run out of Garbage and I'll tell you the day we run out of Oil.
EK