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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: HPilot who wrote (398890)7/15/2008 11:03:40 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1575622
 
Again, what blocks went into place in 1971 to cause peak oil?

You are the one making the stupid claim that the reason while oil production has declined in this country is because we stopped drilling. That is your claim, not mine.

As far as offshore in 1971, I don't know if the block had yet gone into place for Santa Barbara. But, even if so, that would have been about the only offshore area blocked. And, given it is a geologically active area, and the oil in that spill came up through a fault because they were using insufficient casing, it does make sense. Drilling through a fault, even with casing, risks the same thing happening.

So, yes. Your statement is stupid. On a lot of levels. We hit peak oil because all of the easy, large fields have been tapped. About all that left is hard to get to and smaller.
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