Yeah and for all her flaws my wife is still the greatest wife in the world.

And even though they are stupid killers you support the troops.

I think liberals hate America because of what they say everyday of the week …

By and large, the bottom-line oriented individuals running today’s energy producing mineral resource companies lack the backgrounds, field experience and common sense it takes to uncover previously unexplored energy mineral deposits and, for this reason, resort to “utility type”, i.e., coal seam,shale and tight sand gas drilling prospects as their attempt to solve the natural gas shortage problem. History has showed during the 1973-1985 energy crisis that such prospects conducted by similarly experienced individuals ended up costing lots of institutional type dollars and did little to add to domestic oil and gas productivity.

The inability of individuals with the knowledge and ability to find and exploit existing and, as yet unexplored, oil, gas and coal deposits to raise risk capital since 1985 when Congress rescinded the natural resource development economic incentives is the major reason the domestic energy producing mineral industries are in the terrible shape they’re in today. Loss of the risk capital needed by independent operators who historically drilled 70+% of all domestic wells and discovered the bulk of domestic oil and gas reserves has mainly been responsible for destroying the domestic energy mineral producing industries’ infrastructure consisting of well drilling and servicing companies, oilfield equipment and steel and polyvinyl fabricating operations and disbanding the teams of 1950’s and 1960’s trained and experienced field seismologists, geologists and petroleum engineers who located and developed today’s energy producing mineral deposits. In 1985, the country’s total daily oil production averaged 10.6MMBPD and for the previous five years the number of new field wildcat wells drilled averaged 7,300/year. Today, the country’s total daily oil production averages 7.5MMBPD and for the past five years the number of new field wildcat wells drilled averaged 1,460/year of which only 250 were oil prospects. Had the desperately needed risk capital been available to the domestic oil industry the past twenty years, its possible because the necessary oil reserves are in-place in existing fields, that current oil production would be flat or only slightly down from the 1985 figure providing 50% of current domestic oil consumption instead of 30%.

Does no one remember sending our salvage to Japan and what that gained us? Does anyone look around and look at the assets this once enemy has bought in the U.S.A.? How many realize that, like Japan, China will become a threat and they have just the right balance of many important things to do it. An aberrant thought perhaps, but what if…what if, China and Japan joined forces one day?

Perhaps, common sense has been buried. Perhaps it will be the oil industry, as a whole, that will threaten our future freedoms in America for the propaganda that surrounds Americans forms a filter that we can never, truly trust or know the exact positioning of.