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The scramble for Antarctica's black gold: How Russian discovery of huge oil reserves in UK territory...
2024-05-20
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …has made Falkland Islands the 'world's most valuable real estate'... with Putin and Xi eyeing treasure under frozen seas
  • More than half a trillion barrels of oil and gas were reportedly found underneath Antarctica by Russia

  • An international treaty prevents countries from touching it, over environmental fears

  • But experts warned that China and Russia are not to be trusted, and would get their hands on it at any cost
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  Even before the Antarctic discovery...

"BP’s Spencer Dale summed it up nicely, “For every barrel of oil consumed over the past 35 years, two new barrels have been discovered.” And this shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. Peak oil has moved to a long time from now.

While we talk about decreasing our fossil fuel use, it’s easy to forget that humans find it really hard not to use what they have a lot of. And we have a lot of oil. And gas. And coal. In fact, the United States has more oil, gas and coal together than any other country in the world."

But that can all be ignored if corrupt governments and political elites create false crisis and then devise policy to make it expensive and profit from their control of it!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/03/02/no-peak-oil-for-america-or-the-world/?sh=8010cac4220a
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-05-20 16:40  

#5  But...Peak Oil?
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2024-05-20 16:28  

#4  #2 USA has plenty of oil & gas - you just have to lynch some reason with environmentalists (enviro-mentals?).
Posted by: Grom the reflective   2024-05-20 04:34  

#3  #1 Herb?
Posted by: Grom the reflective   2024-05-20 04:32  

#2  Sounds like the US needs to get there 'Git thar fustest with the most mostest'. Nathan Bedford Forrest as I recall. Yes, I know this was an intentional slur, a so called 'quotation', but the core sentiment remains.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2024-05-20 04:27  

#1  The sooner we initiate conflict and break both of these powers, the better off we'll be. They're nothing but trouble.
Posted by: Vortigern+Phert8938   2024-05-20 04:17  

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