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lapfog_1

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Wed Oct 5, 2016, 02:15 AM Oct 2016

So I ran across this headline on CNN

Caelus Lands Massive Oil Discovery in Alaska

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/04/investing/alaska-oil-discovery-caelus/index.html

And I clicked on it because I started thinking oh crap, there goes ANWR

So they found 6 to 10 B barrels. And maybe they can recover up to 60 percent.

Being optimistic, let's say 10 B barrels and 60 percent... so that's 6 B barrels, which does sound like a lot and, at the current price per barrel, that's a lot of money.

But the article also states that the world uses 79 million barrels per day, so this find is only about 76 DAYS worth of oil... or a whopping 11 weeks!!!

So lets start drilling to get our next 11 weeks of oil fix! Moose and bears and caribou be damned.



We really got to get off oil.

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So I ran across this headline on CNN (Original Post) lapfog_1 Oct 2016 OP
Take the drilling rigs to Yellowstone for geothermal. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2016 #1
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