Hating America

[Anonymouse]

There is plenty of oil underground. We haven't even begun to tap sources in the deep seas or in the arctic. High prices are not the fault of the consumer, it's the fault of the OPEC cartel that keeps supply artificially low, just as the diamond cartels do in Africa. If you want to hate somebody, hate free-market disrupting cartels, don't hate the country that discovered oil and invented just about every use for it, not to mention most other means of powering engines and creating an electric current. Let us not forget that if it wasn't for the US, most of the countries that have oil would be broke.

And to think we'd never agree.

[Anonymouse]

I know we've never drilled more than about 15 miles or so offshore. That leaves 70% of the Earth's surface that we've never even looked under.

I rememer when I took oceanography, we learned how the technologies we have now, cannot even begin to uncover the vast untapped oil we have.

[loseyourname]

I keep thinking of the submersible rig from The Abyss, wondering if that will ever come to fruition.