Saudi Electricity Company: Saudi Arabia May Run Out of Oil by 2030
- Posted on June 10, 2011 at 6:55pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Saudi Arabia may be running out of oil. In a recent article in El Economista magazine, Abdel Salam al-Yamani, a public affairs official for the Saudi Electricity Company, voiced concern over Saudi Arabia’s current supply:
The electricity company of Saudi Arabia has set off alarms to warn that oil in this country could be depleted by 2030 if left unchecked domestic consumption. According to a report of this company, it is estimated between 2.5 and 3.4 million barrels a day.
The report, published in the magazine Al Mashka of the company itself says that the increase in domestic consumption of oil is one of the main challenges facing the country, mainly because oil accounts for 80% of national income.
Abdel Salam al-Yamani, head of the Saudi Electricity Company company also warned of the consequences for citizens to ignore the calls to save electricity and water, and has advised that they depend more on solar energy.
Back in February, The Guardian reported on some Wikileaks documents which indicated that Saudi Arabia’s reserves have been overestimated and that oil capacity is something to be concerned about:
The cables, released by WikiLeaks, urge Washington to take seriously a warning from a senior Saudi government oil executive that the kingdom’s crude oil reserves may have been overstated by as much as 300bn barrels – nearly 40%.
The revelation comes as the oil price has soared in recent weeks to more than $100 a barrel on global demand and tensions in the Middle East. Many analysts expect that the Saudis and their Opec cartel partners would pump more oil if rising prices threatened to choke off demand.
Earlier today, with OPEC refusing to raise official production rate, Saudi Arabia decided to boost production on its own. The Middle Eastern nation will substantially increase its own production to help bridge divides created by the Libyan crisis. This move is being looked at as a direct slap to Iran (Iran blocked Saudi Arabia’s attempt to raise production this year). Below, MSNBC asks if Saudi Arabia can bring the cost of oil down:
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If these reports are true, though, Saudi Arabia is limited in terms of how much the nation can boost productivity. In the longterm, oil supplies may be depleted, thus causing shortages and skyrocketing prices.
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Comments (219)
ThoreauHD
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:35pmI hope they all run out sooner. I’d rather ride a unicycle than pay people to kill me.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:31pmYet another reason we need to drill domestically, tap out Natural Gas and build 50-100 new Nuclear Plants…. with China now moving into the #1 energy user spot, they will continue to grow and gobble up all of the Middle East resources, meanwhile Russia is monopolizing all energy transport lines into Europe and they will have a strangle hold on Europe to threaten them by cutting off fuel if Europe doesn‘t bow to Russia’s demands (welcome to Eastern Bloc 2.0)
So we need to become energy independent now, we need to drill now, tap resources now, build new breeder reactor nuclear plants now… because in 2-5 years most of that will be into out pipelines and reserves, in 10 years we could have 50-100 new nuclear plants… gonna need a lot of electricity for all of those all electric vehicles you know…
Stop delaying and stop saying “well even if we drill now, it won’t make a difference for several years” even more so a reason to start immediately so that yes, in a few years when energy is even more scarce, the US energy will then be available, when China runs out of energy, when its own economy collapses onto itself in a few years, the US will stand tall, energy independent, manufacturing strong, by then the whole country should be completely Right to Work, and the end of Union destruction of this country will be dead, and Capitalism will once again be Boss!
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:03amNatural gas has been drilled everywhere, they just dont tell people about it. Ever see those white pipes with the orange tops while you are driving somewhere? ALL natural gas. Every one of them.
Report Post »Go to Oklahoma and look at all the capped pipes sticking out of the ground. UNTAPPED oil. Waiting to be pumped out. They NEVER tell us everything. Have to look for it with our own eyes.
sambachico
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:47amthose white pipes w/ orange caps here in CA are for fiber optic lines, not NG.
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:56amWhere I have lived on the east coast they are all natural gas. There are tons of them at the landfills and I know they didnt fill the landfills with fiberoptics.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:24amThe white pipes with orange on them are where an NG line is, not a drilling point, they are there to keep some idiot with a back hoe from digging it up and causing a gas leak.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:26pmThat GM CEO must be happy now with this news……….You remember, the guy who just a few days ago said that he favors punitive taxation on gasoline, as though there is not enough of that already. Obama loves it too. If gas prices rise again on this story, maybe ‘ol Mr. GM can sell a few more of those stupid, heavily subsidized Volts that nobody wants? Crony capitalism.
Report Post »Bill me later
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:18pmWhy would God put his people on earth and not give them the energy to run it ? He did coal, gas ,oil ,trees ,hydro dams. But man knows best. Green house gas ,Co2 the stuff the plants need to live on.
Report Post »Put God first
nfbailey
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:05pmPurecolorartist…..I couldn’t agree more!!
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:46pmWhere were you at in the Gulf War of 1991?????? I was at K.F.I.A. with the Flying Tigers 23 Tactical Fighter Wing, an A-10 unit.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:27pmYou guys kicked azz and didn’t waste time taking names.
Well done!
Report Post »Seede
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:27pmThanks for being there for me BOMUSTGO. If you were close enough I would shake your hand.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:53pmAppreciate it folks! The way I saw it, I was there to help protect Israel too.Iraq never was the same again. They had the worlds fith largest army.The A-10 was a flying ‘can-opener!”
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:59pmThank you for your service. Are you still in?
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:05amI got out back in 92 after doing ten years.Wanted to settle down somewhere (Louisiana now).
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:49amThe A-10 was a tacnuke without being nuclear.
I saw a photo of an A-10 coming over trees, and the caption was, “The last thing a Soviet tanker will ever see.”
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:13amI wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of an A-10…It had had a seven barrel (Gau-8 avenger) 30mm cannon with over 1000 rounds.I believe we used the AGM-65D (Air to Ground Missile with an I.R seeker). It was not an “All-weather” aircraft or designed to fly at night. They flew at night anyway and used the I.R. seeker on the AGM-65 as a poor mans Forward Looking InfraRed (FLIR) device to see hot tanks at night.The A-10 could do it all.One pilot even shot down an Iraqi helicopter.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:16pmOld man used to work on those A-10′s back at England AFB years ago. Many mechanics wouldn’t mind having one of those beside the truck in their garage…
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:38pmTOTAL fake-out to try to shut obama up.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:14pmMy Goodness, what a bunch of skeptics! ! I mean really, you honestly don’t think that anybody in (or from) the middle east is not truly honorable, honest and forthright in their communications! I saw something on the tube yesterday that O’Bama (he’s Irish yannow) is STILL considering opening the strategic reserves. The way I got it figured, they NEED a pipeline riith into the hanger where AF1 is. Better stock up on tires too.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:10pmOil is an abiotic substance – it is NOT a fossil fuel. Below 30,000 in the Earth, there are literal oceans of oil. It functions as a shock-absorber, to keep torsional forces created by our counter rotating outer-core (made up of liquid nickel and sodium, rotating about our iron inner core) from shaking the planet’s mantles and crust to pieces. The rotation of that semi-liquid nickel and sodium mass around our iron core is what produces the electromagnetic field that keeps us from baking like a potato as we otherwise would – that field deflects deadly solar and cosmic radiation.
The spongier upper and lower mantles absorb a lot of the forces and cushion our tectonic plates, which all have seams (mid ocean ridges) and many thousands of smaller plates – the first have great mass to provide stability and the smaller ones are like expansion joints in roads.
The mid ocean ridges serve as pressure release points, insulated and cooled by many sextillion tons of water, which hold the deadly gases in suspension and prevent their release as vapor that would kill us. Periodic quakes and volcanoes serve as pop-off valves to release excess pressure – hence the ancient stones in Japan, and Israel which read: “Do not build your house lower than this line” (of course we do and we pay for it….)
We have a role, too… we’re SUPPOSED to consume oil, and natural gases. God gave us all the cheap energy we would ever need and if you review the above, you will easily see God’s hand.
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:42pmThe earth is constantly making more abiotic oil below the mantle.. Russia has over 350 abiotic wells pumping oil like crazy.. US? We have the equivalent of fermented Wheatena.. The Gulf accident last year was 6 mile deep well.. We have plenty of oil.
Report Post »Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:01pmNobody knows jack about the reserves other than the exploration experts and neither they nor the governments will EVER tell us the truth because in all likelihood if they did they wouldn’t be able to substantiate the prices they now get away with charging for crude oil.
I‘d bet there’s literally oceans of oil in our globe’s core and it would take 200 lifetimes to deplete the oceans were they filled with crude, as there’s 343 quintillion gallons, or put another way, 343 billion BILLION gallons. It’s all a sham.
The only reason we really buy oil from the impoverished middle east is to ‘spread the wealth around’ and nothing more. I‘d bet my soul there’s enough reserves in America alone to supply us for at least a couple hundred years as I’m one who believes that oil regenerates far quicker than scientists claim.
Look how correct they all are on Global warming… I just take what they tell us, turn it on it’s head, and that’s usually the truth. Just apply that to Weinergate and that proves my point.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:59pmObama wants us to buy electric cars. He is shutting down 6 of AEP Electric Coal Power Plants in Ohio and W.Virgina. He’s using his EPA to shut them down. He’s shutting down coal mining in W. Virgina and Kentucky using EPA and OSHA. Waited 53 days before letting Supper skimmer in to clean up oil in Gulf. He wanted oil damage beaches to sue BP Oil and as excuse to shut down oil drilling in the Gulf. Also no damage to beach no lawsuit to BP. What person in their right mind does this with our country in this economic troubles?
Report Post »A person with THIRD World Dictator DNA..Maybe?
BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:11pmAnd these coal mining States voted for obumbler even when he told them he would shut them down.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:55pmGoes right along with cant raise output.
Report Post »Seabee79
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:48pmI hope they do run out, then they could buy it from us. wouldn’t that be ironic.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:46pmDrill baby drill here in the good ole USA,we got plenty
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:46pmROSE-ELLEN Is the prime reason you should not drink the Obama Kool-aid thru a crazy straw!
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:45pmScrew the Saudis and every other Moslem. Let them charge charge $100 for a barrel of oil.
We should charge them $500 for a bushel of wheat or corn. We can either produce our own oil if Obow and the Dems get out of the way, or we can nuke Riyyadh and take their oil fields any time we like.
Let’s see those Moslem murderers grow an acre of corn.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:55pmSaudi Arabia was like being on the moon.They can’t grow much at all.The heat,sand storms, and sand flys were just terrible.Was glad to leave that place behind after 6.5 months in Country.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:16pm@BOMUSTGO
Glad you came home in one piece, Patriot. Thanks for all you did!
They’re insane. The Wahabbis who rule the House of Saud used to kill other Moslems for religious reasons, back in the 1920s. Culturally, they’re still in the 7th Century. they still have slavery, yet American liberals whine, simper, and nag about something we ended 160 years ago.
Sometimes, I guess, I just don’t get it. I say, if the Saudis want to bleed us, then turnabout is fair play. We starve them.
Or nuke them.
Or, whatever.
The world is lucky, despite what the Left cries about of “American imperialism”. If we really wanted to flex our muscle, the on;y ones able to stop us would be wiped out, too.
Screw the Moslems, I say. All that sand might go down easy with a glass of sea water.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:27pmThe biggest murderers on the planet is the american military,committing mass murder and torture of arabs everywhere. the american mindset today is as genocidal towards muslims as the nazi’s were of jews.[more so actually, the nazi's were a regime], the genocidal anti arab mindset is pervasive among the american people now.Shows the power of indoctrination via propaganda.In rhuanda it started with the media too.As 9-11 showed you you don’t own the world.In the new millenium [the millenium of the people-all people-, your dishonorable dealings with arabs came bback to bite you;they took you to the knowledge for the first time that there would be consequences for you for your policies toward them.That is why you hate them .That was not suppossed to happen.We believed we could and should and would act with impunity in the world.They showed you that the world does not belong to you.Now you want to nuke them for making you aware that your policies over there could impact you over here.They asserted their humanity and there existence on this planet which was not suppose to happen.Like good nazis you now speak of genocide.How dare they!
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:11am@rose-ellen
No, the biggest murderers are Islamists.
And, you Moslem vermin, have not been granted permission to write to me. Ask first, before you post to me, Moslem vermin female. If I want your opinion, I’ll do the Islamic thing and beat it out of you.
That is quite YOUR way, isn’t it?
I allow ONLY Conservatives in my life. And an occasional liberal who I judge is cool.
Moslems, however–and especially Moslem females–are not authorized to speak to me without prior permission.
How’s that fitting with YOU, pro-rape/pro-murder Islamist?
~spits at your feet~
Report Post »Mikhail Kennedy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:06amRose bin Ellen
Report Post »You have been outed, everybody knows that you are a muslim or at the very least a muslim sympathizer which is the same thing, we all know that you are a Jew hater and that is enough to condemn you.
Once again I will offer to send you to any Islamic state that you wish, just renounce your American citizenship.
jb.kibs
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:34pmLet’s see here.. we can replicate the production of diamonds.. but we can’t replicate the production of oil, hmmm i don’t believe it. in fact i have a feeling that we can produce oil, similar to composting.
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:26pmTime to drill drill drill for natural gas, united states has a 100 year supply of it.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:32pmas long as stuff decays.. we have an eternity of gas and oil…
Report Post »arx
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:11amone of my favorite movies. Favorite scene is the meeting with ten bears
Report Post »Conservitive Ticker
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:25pmOur current Government use the oil to redistribute hardworking American Tax Dollars to foreign countries. “Lets close down all oil exploration and harvesting activities in the US”, lets send billions of our dollars to foreign countries for them to explore and drill then charge yet again the American tax payer to buy oil back from those foreign country. North America has vast oil resources that we haven’t even touch because our friends the Democrats feel the need to turn those areas into national parks or national monuments. We have the technology to cleanly and safely extract our resource with out harming the environment. I love the environment and the outdoors just as much as the kooky political environmentalists. POTUS needs to give the American people a chance to provide for our own energy needs and quite relying on foreign blood oil. And POTUS needs to quite sell mining rights and lands to foreign country’s to mine and extract our resources off our lands.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:07pmYou sneaky li’l devil, gitrcher mind straigfht, you could get a job the the DoE!! (just kidding!)
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:22pmActually they have unlimited oil because their wells are being fed by an underground process DEEP in the earth. Oil is made by a chemical process and not from fossil remains. The Russians have these super depth wells approx 6 miles down and the psi of the product coming to the surface is about 70,000. The oil is very light and is considered very desirable for refining it is also called Abiotic Oil. It is being discovered at 30,000 feet and below the mantle which is far below any fossil remains may be. The BP oil well in the gulf was 30,000 feet or 6 miles down and they hit the largest reserve ever! The pressure was so high everything failed! We have been told oil will run out.. No, in fact far from it.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:45amWow, do you mean that the dinosaurs aren’t responsible for our oil? And prehistoric plants? You know, I never thought about the depths of the discoveries! That’s a lot of fallen leaves and melted icebergs to get us from 6 miles down, about 30,000 feet to the surface (sea level)! We’ve been brainwashed since kindergarten! No wonder Al Gore is so misinformed! And, he couldn‘t even excel at the ’science’ that he was taught! Maybe he drank from too many contaminated wells from his dad’s tin mines when he was younger! Maybe he hates Armand Hammer (Occidental Oil), who put his family on the map with insider trades and favors! But, Mr. Green Genes is so-o-o misinformed that anything he DOES is likely to DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD!
Report Post »chalkdust
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 4:19amThats actually not true. The Soviet scientists tried drilling into the“basement” and got mostly gas and immense pressure. There was a guy from Cornell that did the same thing and got 50 barrels of oil. Petroleum is produced chemically over vast amounts of time and pressure. No, it was not the dino’s. The reason abiotic oil is most likely false, is because at a certain temperature oil molecules crack and it turns to natural gas. Therefore it is unlikely that petroleum can exist at extreme depths because of the pressure/heat. They have found oil at depths deeper than before in recent times but it was attributed to geological conditions similar to shallower depths.
Report Post »I wish the Earth had a petroleum factory deep below. The chemical reactions petroleum goes through when heated is hard science and demonstrable and makes it unlikely that the Earth “makes its own oil”.
endgamer
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:12amVia lketchum – Oil is an abiotic substance – it is NOT a fossil fuel. Below 30,000 in the Earth, there are literal oceans of oil. It functions as a shock-absorber, to keep torsional forces created by our counter rotating outer-core (made up of liquid nickel and sodium, rotating about our iron inner core) from shaking the planet’s mantles and crust to pieces. The rotation of that semi-liquid nickel and sodium mass around our iron core is what produces the electromagnetic field that keeps us from baking like a potato as we otherwise would – that field deflects deadly solar and cosmic radiation.
The spongier upper and lower mantles absorb a lot of the forces and cushion our tectonic plates, which all have seams (mid ocean ridges) and many thousands of smaller plates – the first have great mass to provide stability and the smaller ones are like expansion joints in roads.
The mid ocean ridges serve as pressure release points, insulated and cooled by many sextillion tons of water, which hold the deadly gases in suspension and prevent their release as vapor that would kill us. Periodic quakes and volcanoes serve as pop-off valves to release excess pressure – hence the ancient stones in Japan, and Israel which read: “Do not build your house lower than this line” (of course we do and we pay for it….)
We have a role, too… we’re SUPPOSED to consume oil, and natural gases. God gave us all the cheap energy we would ever need and if you review the above, you wi
Report Post »rabblechat
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:54pmI wish you were right, but your claims are not supported by fact. If they were dont you think the russians would be bringing more oil to market? As for us we hit our peak back in 1970. Try as we may the best we can do is produce about half of what we did in 1970. I know BO is anti drilling but dont you think the 8 years of reagan, and 12 years of bush 1 and 2 would have gave us more oil if it was just a matter of drilling more wells or opening the valve? Oil is a finite resourse folks and our demand for it has just about surpassed the ability to extract it.
Report Post »Id recommend reading and getting the facts
BOMUSTGO
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:22pmOur Government lied to us back in the 70′s saying there was a shortage. Now they say that we have more reserves than the Middle East…They also told us an ice age was coming then too…And eggs where good for you…then they were bad for you….. and now the poor egg is back on the good list.Now they say the earth is heating up…James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:31pmexactly.. “FACTS” … BULL S.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:18pmDitto on James 1:8
If we had a government that could tell us the truth about anything… and I do mean ANYTHING…
THEN, I might listen to them on things that sound WAAAAYYY TOO CONVENIENT.
However, as they have PROVEN, time after time, they are NOT honest with us.
Ask Obama the Liar in Chief how the economy is doing? Ask the media about Obama’s job performance, or about the Republican candidates/possible candidates. Ask Obama about JOBS.
Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, spin…
(“Spin” is just a euphemism for a BALD-FACED LIE that suits your own agenda)
Report Post »fitsgibbons
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:26pmThe government is just too damn BIG.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:11amWAY too big. we need to ignore the federal government and start treating our governors as our state presidents. the states are everything. local is everything. things grow from SEED, not the other way around.. without us giving them control, they don’t have it.
Report Post »I Hear the Wolves
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:07pmQuick, everyone go buy a Chevy Volt!
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:28pmOr better yet, some type of device that sends a metal-jacketed pieces of lead at high velocities toward bad people.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:30pmLOL, no way.
plus we all know how feasible electricity is produced..
the best thing anyone can do, is like they do with battery life, is make fuel efficiency better and better untill it’s so efficient you get 100+ miles to a gallon.
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 6:42pmToo bad they couldn’t be out of Muslims by that time. It would be much more helpful.
Report Post »frustratedwithgovt
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:07pmI think its probably more correct to say that the Light Sweet Crude is running out. I’m sure they have a lot of the much more difficult to refine crude left. I hope we use this as a rally cry to drill at home.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 3:22pmWe’ve been warring throughout the last century into this century.There crime rate is low.But your faux humanitarianism exposes your hypocrisy and lack of honor.Until they resisted your unjust incursions and policies, you didn’t care about the plight of women there and even encouraged the brutal treatment of dissidents[as your reluctence to oppose the overthrow of mubared shows].As i recall there was a time some women had to go to the back of the bus here[i'm sure saudi males believe they're protecting women] What was your reason for that?Certainly not to protect certain women did they have to go to the back of the bus!And patriarchy is a cultural thing.Islam ,like Christianity and other religions[and like the constitution for that matter]can be interpreted any way you like.As the mores change and evolve so the religious interpretations.[and they vary among muslim cultures].As i recall up until recently, the west was patriarchal and women were subservient to men.Christianity taught that untill the 1960s Now that patriarchy has been dismantled here you believe nuking saudi women is better then living uner patrriarchy.You want to nuke them because they dare fight back against our unjust policies toward them Prior to 9-11 you were only too glad to steal their oil by propping up brutal dictators so your concern for their human rights is a ruse.Alquada knows that and so do all the brave resistance fighters in iraq and Afghanistan and pakistan.Women pass on culture & change
Report Post »Julio
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:07pmDo you think more drilling for oil is in America is a good idea? Do you think using the hundreds of years of coal and natural gas we have would be a good idea to exploit? Or should we follow this administrations policies giving us no back-up plan? This administration has less than zero COMMON SENSE. Obama is the enemy of America and the faster we get rid of this terrorist the better.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:01pmI would bet that 305 or more of the oil produced NOW in the us goes somewhere else. And, on top of that, knowing that a bunch of dumb as politicans were in on the “treaties” we‘re probably knockin’ down $15-17/bbl. (Can you see it) 1955 some lameass senator from CA says” Damn boys, this crap is ever’where! Betcha I can make a deal with some-them Japs overthere , an’ aill make me a for-TUNE!. Price probably hasn’t moved since!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:24pmYou’re just angry that we got a taste of our own medicine on 9-11.it’s not that you value human life since you spent the whole 20th centruy bombing one country after another as you are now doing.[Now you've added torture to the mix.]I’m a practicing catholic.Genocidal bigots always talk about how truely evil their genocidal targets are.The anti-semitism of the 21st vcentury is anti arab and for that reason i sympathize with muslims.having a backward culture does not make you evil [and indigenous people in their homelands have the right to their backward culture.the world does not belong to you.]But you supported evil dictators who allied themselves with our interests so you’re not only the biggest hypocrites going but have no ethics or honor.[the uprisings by the people against these evil regimes and the rights insistence that they should be governed by tyrants who do our bidding reveal your evil mindset,not theirs.You had no problem rendering people for torture to american backed dictators who do our bidding and then you get on your high horse about their penal ccodes and backward mores.When they‘re not warring they’re peaceful people, which can’t be said for us here.We kill people for all kinds of reasons everyday .
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:53pm@ – roseellen
“When they‘re not warring they’re peaceful people….”
Report Post »They’ve been “warring” for centuries….and still are. So how do you know they’re peaceful??
I had no idea you were that old.
End The Fed
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:02pmBetter start drillin’. Ya hear that, White House??
Morons…
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:19pmYour comment has fallen upon deaf ears.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:47pmdude..not till 2012 ! vote smart…
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:51pmWe should drill here of course & not send them our $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Report Post »But the Saudi oil will never end soon we heard this before , first it was gonna end in 90′s then in 2000 then in 2020 & now 2030 .
CatB
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:27pm“deaf ears”
you would think with those BIG EARS he could hear …
TEA!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:11pmWe’re the dishonerable ones;propping up that regime to get below market oil prices[europeans pay market prices]and placing military bases there when the people find that an affront to their religious sensibilities. if they dissent then that american backed dictatorship tortures and kills them.We look the other way and even goad them to show their loyalty to us by urging them to crack down more on all “terrorists”; meaning anyone who stands up to them.The syrian dictatorship and gadaffi are taking their cue from us labeling all protestors as terrorists [alquada started resisting american backed saudi brutal dictatorship] . We sent disenters their to be tortured then berate them for their human rights abuses.Then we hypocritically claim that they themselves are terrorists.No one is as dishonable as the americans in their dealings with arabs.[and other people too].Americans don’t drill for oil at home because the policy is to let everyone else run out first so we can then take over the world.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:35pm@rose-ellen
No, Rose Ellen. I didn’t bother reading your rant, because you’re always the same old-same old. And none of what you write rates here. All you write is just bullsnot.
Hey–I noticed YOU were absent on the thread about a gang of Moslem males gang-raping a Christian woman. That is okay with you, I guess.
Where are YOU pointing out about Islamist slavery of children and women; where are YOU?
Really, in real-world matters, where are YOU about Islamic injustice? F-in nowhere.
You’re not changing a single mind here. As a matter of fact, if you want to be dhimmi, go for it. Go to Saudi Arabia and BE what you think is somehow ‘abused’.
I abuse you right back: Since you’re so Islamist, and a female, I treat you as an Islamic female: Shut up until the Men here give you permission to speak.
How’s that work for you?
Another thing: Any of you Moslems TRY imposing on my liberty, I will do things to your kind, unto death, you couldn’t imagine.
Get on the same page, Moslem female: You aren’t allowed permission to speak.
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:52pm@rose-ellen
Here is why, you Moslem vermin, I will never accept your chat or even YOU:
I watched, live, that second plane go in on 9/11/01.
I watched, live-as-it-happened, MOSLEMS kill 3000 of my fellow Americans.
I could go on a rant, but I won’t. Suffice to say that, if the rubber meets the road and though I’m generally a peaceful man…I will brutally kill every Moslem I can, and all the liberals who support them.
Let us both pray I’m never forced into that occasion.
Now, Moslem female–shut up. you aren’t granted permission to speak, let alone opine.
Pffft!
Report Post »arx
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:06amrose ellen, if you are a muslim, I’ll just say this: mohamhead (shame and curses be upon him) was a greedy, vicious pedophile creep who is very likely burning in hell at this very moment. Now I just bet that makes you want to jihad!?
Report Post »quizibo
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:26am@upstateconservative
Wow, you truly showed how ignorant, racist and violent you are towards other cultures. First, you are generalizing Muslims because of a handful of Radical Fundamentalist, you can do the same thing with EVERY OTHER RELIGION but you choose Muslims. Very racist and bigoted…But I cant expect anything less from a Glenn Beck crowd. Second, your treatment of women are not at all the way Muslim women get treated. Maybe if you were too see that in a lot of Muslim countries women are doctors, lawyers, actresses and so on you would be eating crow.
But again, what do I expect from people like Glenn Beck followers that get all their information from JUST ONE SOURCE.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:49amquizibo
Tell ya what Quiz, I’ve been to the middle east. I was deployed there for some time and can aassure you that you haven’t got a clue as to what you are speaking about. Women are arrested for not sitting in the back of the car, they are seperated from men in public and discriminated against on a very large scale. Pretty much a lot of what you say it isn’t. So tell ya what Quiz, why don‘t you go on back and get yourself a clue and try again after you’ve gone to the big boy store and figured out the actual truth. So typical of the progressives to speak out of ignorance there Quiz.
Report Post »quizibo
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:57amWell, HiFi, I have been to the Middle East also and I can tell you that you have NO CLUE about what you are talking about, I have been to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Palestine (I refuse to call that land Israel) and I dont know what you saw but it was completely different from what I saw. It can only leave me to guess that you are a complete liar..
Report Post »I think you have been listening to Beck a little too much.
MidWestMom
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:54pmRoseEllen –
You spew & spew & spew about the evil United States. You proclaim undying love for and worship of the – insert heavy sarcasm here = “pure & peaceful” people (terrorists included) of the Middle East …. and yet, you still live & work (I assume you work…but maybe not, you could be one of those getting asistance from the very government you hate) here in the states. Why is that?? Are you a one of those people who likes to be miserable….who must exist in a world they hate for some type of weird personal satisfaction?
Many times you have been asked “why don’t you go live in the places and with the people you adoringly worship” Yet I’ve never seen you post an answer to the question……
Really it does make you look incredibly stupid. Even more so than your ignorant comments & malicious ravings.
Oh, and we’re still waiting for your answer…
Report Post »wordweaver
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 6:59pmThey have no idea how much oil is still down there. This is a ploy to keep prices high.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:05pmMy thoughts exactly. This is all a ploy.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:05pmdo you know that for a fact or are you just sayin stuff
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:06pmAgreed.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:13pmThere is a limit to how much is down there. New technology might allow more to be recovered. More demand in China and India will drive prices up eventually, but prices will go down after Labor Day.
Report Post »End The Fed
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:14pmIf it’s a hoax, then major oil consumers will look within their own boarders. But the Anointed One would rather kill jobs and the economy by not drilling and implementing the Green bridge to nowhereand Cap and Tax.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:19pmexactly
Report Post »it’s a total scam. oil is produced everyday in nature.
CatB
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:26pm@WORDWEAVER
I agree .. but let’s call their bluff .. DRILL HERE DRILL NOW!
TEA!
Report Post »avenger
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:27pmwow ! what an opportunity for the USA to start a crash program to drill our own oil to help the arabs…just joking…now we can be the cartel and charge them $250/barrel.we can do it after 2012 election…
Report Post »bloodrage
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:31pmWhether or not this story is a ploy, the only thing thats gonna get drilled in our country is working class Americans’ just looking to survive. Three cheers for Barry’s energy policies. HIP HIP HOORAH !
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:54pmIt is not a ploy!! Doncha know a damn lie when ya read one!!
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 7:56pmRead between the lines. A country as Saudi Arabia doesn’t let just any info to be “released”, it has a purpose of being released.
Iran blocked Saudi’s push to increase production in OPEC which never happen and only happened due to Iran presiding over OPEC this year.
A release of “smaller oil reserves” will lower world supply increasing price and increasing demand for more oil to lower the price.
This is Saudi propaganda to sway the world (higher prices) to push Iran into allowing more oil production.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:06pmAnd we’re to feel sorry for them? This is a scam by the Obama regime.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:10pmAdd 1 more to the Ploy tally.
Report Post »The timing is FAR TOO coincidental.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:10pmNo telling indeed.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:12pmLOL! LMAO! I guess “estimating” oil reserves is more ‘art’ than “science”, eh?
Yeah. If you think oil prices are high now, wait until the “rumor” of Saudi ‘end of life’ of oil will bring.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:15pmI hate the liberals lie that it would take ten years to start producing oil if we started drilling now. Well if we started back when we wanted to then we wouldn’t be in this mess. So what if we use up our supply, that won’t happen for another 200 years and by then we will have the technology to go alternative.
The price of gas is going up again, thanks to our foreign friends/enemies. ( http://www.americanparchment.com ) It is at $103 and it is said to keep going up till they increase production.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:18pmYour right Word.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 8:45pmI work with a guy who used to drill wells. Even dry wells, when capped, 10 years later will start producing again. Oil will settle back into the pockets, so it’s useless to try and say we have XXXXX amount of oil in this well.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:06pmThey haven’t tapped 5% of their potential. I say invade and conquer … we’ll make Sharia Law a … board game, played by the mentally disabled during lunch time recess …
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:19pm…and yet we have oil coming out of our American ears, and they won’t allow us to go after it!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:39pmAre we playing this game again? A couple years ago we were at “peak oil”, that along with speculators drove the prices sky high. Wouldn’t surprise me if this was an Obam plant.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:45pmThese “facts” come straight from an honest, honorable country….the same country thats been secretly funding terrorism for decades. Uh-huh. I believe them…
Report Post »NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 9:47pmI feel so sorry for them—NOT!!!
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:19pm30 years ago they said we would be out of oil in 30 years………
Peak Oil like Global Warming is nonsense
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:19pmMy thought is that they are trying to make the camel breeders happy. Gonna have to go find another buried dinosaur grave.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:00pmLuckily they can fall back on their intelligent, hardworking, and non-fascist citizenry when the oil runs out (sarc).
Report Post »arx
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:54pmthat is the only thin silver lining in the big black cloud of liberal idiocy in not allowing us to produce our own energy….it will all be there for our grandkids to drill.
Imagine a world where the ME had no oil: a desert full of camel humping ragheads throwing stones at eachother….
Report Post »PickenJack
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:20amDo oil wells not dry up ? Can oilfields dry up ? Can any country deplete their resources ?
The answer to all three is a resounding YES !
It took millions of years for mother nature to produce that oil and we are using it up at an alarming rate…. we do have to find another source of fuel (liquid or solid) and the sooner the better. The real problem is that we have made it all a political football or really a “hot potato”.
Energy IS one of the reasons we need to get off of the SEX gates, golf, White House Beer Parties, apology tours and continuous campaign modes. We have some problems that need serious attention from ADULT elected officials, and time is running out.
I always figured that we were holding our reserves until the rest of the world was drained and then we have more control……. just thinking here.
Report Post »PickenJack
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:33amI have lived in the country most of my life. Oil is like water. Our water well would go dry. Sometimes when a well goes dry IT NEVER COMES BACK. The return rate of a well determines the quality of the supply. In reality oil does not have a return rate as it takes millions of years to produce by natural processes. Once you drain an oil well you may have some residual seeping but it will never “COME BACK” to the original pocket.
My point is………. oil IS NOT a renewable resource and we can run out.
Are these reports from our best buddies true, who knows? But if we know what is good for us we will not only drill but also find some other energy source to satisfy our desire to be mobile.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:48amSarah said it DRILL BABY DRILL!!
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:07amSounds like the Saudis are starting the ground work justifying a Nuclear program. Looks like Iran is rattling the Kingdoms cage.-> Action Reaction <-
Report Post »chalkdust
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:06amThe Saudi’s are well known for fudging there reserves. In fact, many oil producing nations over state the amount of oil they have simply because it is money in the bank. Every year the Saudi’s pump more and more seawater into Ghawar, the largest domestic oil field ever discovered, to force the oil out of the source rock. It peaked in production in the 80′s at about 5.5 million barrels per day. This really is old and expected news.
Report Post »Saudi Arabia is expected to raise production next month to 10 million barrels a day which will ease supply issues. They are moving against OPEC’s wishes to keep production static. Why? I suspect they realize that if you allow supply to get to tight, it de-stabilizes the market causing a yo yo effect. Demand suddenly falls and they lose a lot of revenue. It happened in 2008, the 80‘s after the the oil shocks of the late 70’s and less notable times.
You can bet that this article is probably true. This is not the first or the last time someone will question Saudi reserves. They will not “run dry”, production will just drop to insignificant levels, at some point in the future.
chalkdust
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:49amFor those who think peak oil is a hoax, it is not. I’m not talking about the doom and despair crowd a quick google search will provide. Peak production of any given oil well is when the production percentage of a well starts to fall, it has peaked. In some cases, depending on the shape and geological features of a well, adjustments can be made to boost production at least temporarily.
Report Post »The real pertinent issue is the number of new finds keeping up with demand.
That said, I’m not going to far down the rabbit hole of oil production. Instead, read about M. King Hubbert who came up with a mathematical bell curve to estimate energy reserves. Or read about whats known as the oil kitchen, where oil is formed and at what depths. Read how petroleum can turn to natural gas because temperatures are to great, literally cracking the hydro-carbon molecule. Understand that this means the theory of abiotic oil is most likely false. Read how oil was formed (hint: It was not the dinosaurs). Read about how much oil the world produces and how much we use. Understand the different types of petroleum. Learn about shale oil and the difficulties associated with it. Find out that the US has potentially the largest field of Shale in the world and this is good news.
Just read, it affects your life every day, not just at the pump. Mass food production depends greatly on fertilizer and pesticides that are made from petroleum.
joe3
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 4:41amrussa is the largest oil producer, the russians believe and have proven oil is A-biotic. we are lied to about the nature of oil. that gulf blow out well is tapped into a deep a-biotic source. no one is running out.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 6:35amWhen the Saudi’s run out of oil, they will have to go back to their camels and sand dunes. All we will need to do is tap our natural gas and oil and continue down the road. Drill baby drill.
Report Post »Spike143
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:31amIf this is true it might be a good thing for America. Once we get a true conservative in the White house that will start drilling here in the US, we can sell them our oil at $500 a barrel and that will help us pay down our debt.
Report Post »Spike
MADASHELLONE
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:37amWhy would anyone believe a word that comes out of these camel jockeys mouths. They are raping this country every day and our sorry ass government allows it to had.
Report Post »antirino
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:46amThis is a call to drill here, drill now!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:57ami tnink the world would be better off if the saudis ran out of oil. if they run out the entire middle east will run out. can you imagine, no more money to advance jihad. yes i think we would all be better off.
Report Post »coladude
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:15amJust keep drilling you will find more.
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Report Post »chalkdust
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:22am@joe3
Report Post »No, the Russians attempted along with a Cornell professor. They didn’t prove anything.
Lindsey Williams spouts this stuff and its just not true.
just the facts
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:52pmAgreed. It.s a pure scare tactic and a method of instilling fear to the world. Unfortunately, many will believe them.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 12:02am100% correct. Plus they have found that some places have oil refilling, so who knows how much or little really exists.
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