. said:

I meant when oil was first discovered it was considered pricy to extract since the technology wasnt in place then to make it easily recovered. The same is true for alternative energy technologies today until they mature.

It was considered pricey to extract?



Is that why we have pictures of FORESTS of drilling platforms in Pennsylvania, you fucking RETARD!?!!?

The same thing happened in Baku. FORESTS of drillheads.

About the only limiting agent for oil extraction was having enough barrels on hand to capture the flow. Barrel makers soon cought up, though. Economic expansion from all this nearly FREE energy does that.

Drilling technology was particularly mature in the nation at that time. Oil drillers started out being water drillers. It was an easy transition in the beginning.

Go back to school. You don't know ANYTHING about what they fuck you claim you're talking about.

Mr_Right said:

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Exactly. =

Today's illustration.

. said:

It was considered pricey to extract?



Is that why we have pictures of FORESTS of drilling platforms in Pennsylvania, you fucking RETARD!?!!?

The same thing happened in Baku. FORESTS of drillheads.

About the only limiting agent for oil extraction was having enough barrels on hand to capture the flow. Barrel makers soon cought up, though. Economic expansion from all this nearly FREE energy does that.

Drilling technology was particularly mature in the nation at that time. Oil drillers started out being water drillers. It was an easy transition in the beginning.

Go back to school. You don't know ANYTHING about what they fuck you claim you're talking about.

. said:

Then why were ships running on coal in the 20th century when oil had been around for a while?

MW.nli said:

The same reason we are now hooked on oil - the infrastructure was in place, and the owners wanted to milk it to the last penny.

. said:

Maybe, but quite a few WW1 era warships were coal powered, even battleships. If any entity had reason to have access to oil power, it would be the military at the time.

. said:

Navies slowly converted to oil (diesel). Those that could, converted to nuclear. But nuclear ships are rare, and so most run on diesel. And that's GOING AWAY.

Try running your navies on $26/gal fuel instead of $3.50/gal fuel. That's the problem with alternatives. THEY HAVE NOWHERE NEAR THE SAME ECONOMY.

I'm sure that was the argument when the navy was powered by coal.