What is the efficacy of "drill, baby, drill".................

[kyzr]

Because it's pristine.

So what? It has oil and gas.

 

[Unkotare]

Because it's pristine.

Appeal to emotion.

 

[berg80]

Appeal to emotion.

Appeal to intellect, of which you apparently have very little.

 

[Unkotare]

Appeal to intellect, of which you apparently have very little.

Because I see through propaganda language?

 

[berg80]

Because I see through propaganda language?

Is it or is it not pristine? How is an accurate adjective propaganda?

 

[drudge X]

Appeal to intellect, of which you apparently have very little.

Let me guess, you live in a sprawling metro filled with pollution but you don't have a problem lecturing Alaskans living up there about the environment.

 

[Zincwarrior]

30.00 in America

Not in decades.

 

[kyzr]

Spoken like a Neanderthal.

LOL. If ANWR is pristine, but no one sees it, does it matter?

Every location is pristine before you drill you moron.

 

[Nostra]

No one in the industry gives a shit. Oil is $58 a barrel. There is no profitable development outside the Anadarko and Dakotas that is profitable. Offshore, Alaska , whatever. Unless oil is $90 a barrel its not even worth a yawn.

Texas sure does pump a shit-ton of oil at a loss, huh?

 

[Independent thinker]

Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling​

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's environmental jewels.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the decision Thursday that paves the way for future lease sales within the refuge's 1.5 million-acre ( 631,309 hectare) coastal plain, an area that's considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich'in. The plan fulfills pledges made by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to reopen this portion of the refuge to possible development. Trump's bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, passed during the summer, called for at least four lease sales within the refuge over a 10-year period.

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/24/nx-s1-5584883/trump-alaska-wildlife-refuge-oil-gas-drilling

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.................when supply is already exceeding demand?

Oil Could Fall to the $30s—Unless Someone Turns Off the Taps​

Oil companies are pumping out crude at a record rate, and demand can’t keep up. That dynamic could continue through 2027, according to JP Morgan strategist Natasha Kaneva. And if it does, oil prices could fall into the $30s per barrel by the end of 2027, about half of what they are worth today. Below $40, few U.S. projects would be profitable.

MSN

U.S. Oil Companies Are ‘Battening Down the Hatches’​

The industry is bracing for the OPEC Plus oil cartel’s meeting on Saturday, which is widely expected to further increase oil production despite weak demand.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/energy-environment/oil-companies-production-prices-opec.html

There is a very basic economic principle at play here. When demand decreases, or supply exceeds demand, suppliers cut back on production to stabilize the price of what they are producing. So why open the pristine arctic refuge for drilling when oil producers are cutting back production on existing oil fields?

Are you against cheaper gas prices and cheaper prices everywhere? Well, of course you are because you would rather see the country fail than Trump do well.

 

[initforme]

How about we kerp the oil we drill here, here, in this nation where our citizens need it instead of shipping one ounce away?

 

[berg80]

Let me guess, you live in a sprawling metro filled with pollution but you don't have a problem lecturing Alaskans living up there about the environment.

Guess again.

 

[berg80]

Speaking of market forces controlling the price of oil.........WTI oil is down 2.5% on the news of a possible truce in Ukraine.

 

[DGS49]

Oil makes a profit at 30.00 a barrel.

Define "profit." You are speaking of gross margin, which is a whole different thing.

 

[d0gbreath]

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$2.54 yesterday when I filled up.







.

I got $2.32. I love it when I win!

 

[Nostra]

Already developed you dumbass. Reveal more ignorance please.

The Texas oil industry says you are a lying sack of vermin shit.

587 new drilling permits issued by Texas in Sept alone, Dumbass.

100325 September Drilling Permits Press Release

 

[Hafar1014]

Define "profit." You are speaking of gross margin, which is a whole different thing.

The minimum to stay in business in this case. Not a problem considering the increase in demand

 

[Zincwarrior]

The Texas oil industry says you are a lying sack of vermin shit.

587 new drilling permits issued by Texas in Sept alone, Dumbass.

100325 September Drilling Permits Press Release

I already said that. See post #6

 

[Doc7505]

The oil industry is constantly battling with the conundrum of increasing production to lower market prices. It applies both to "drilling" and refinement. We The People can take comfort in two facts: First, it is now known that we will "never" run out of petroleum products. The proven reserves will last long past the death of every person living now on earth. Second, the swinging pendulum of the market remains a pleasant reminder of how market forces work. Those who claim that the oil companies are dangerously powerful have nothing to say when gas-pump prices drop, proving that the oil companies DO NOT control market prices directly.

The perennial ANWR debate highlights - for those who are paying attention with a little perspective - how vacuous the watermelon-left* is on the subject. The amount of pristine land that would be defiled by petroleum drilling and transporting infrastructure is so tiny that it would take you years to even find it in Alaska with your DJI drone.


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* Green on the outside; red on the inside.

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Additionally, the drilling techniques used today far exceed the safety and environmental issues the other countries ignore.
Additionally, what is not being addressed is the fact that getting the oil out of the ground is one thing, refining it crude oil into it's products is becoming more difficult and cannot reach capacity because petroleum refining plants are becoming fewer and fewer.
Look at California as the price of fuel skyrockets above $5.00/gal and the rest of the U.S., Hawaii excluded see's lower and lower fuel costs.

 

[JohnDB]

Drilling does no good unless we get some new refineries.

But we also need to clean up the brown sites in the gulf of abandoned oil platforms.