Bad News; There Seems To Be Unlimited Supply Of Crude Oil
Some years back as a young man I spent time working on
a paraffin cleaning machine for an oil well service
company.
It was hard, dangerous and dirty work, but there was a
strange camaraderie among the people who worked in the
oil fields so it consequently was an enjoyable time in
my life. And I learned a lot about oil wells . . .
about how this substance is found and about how it is
brought from the ground. I lived under a fine mist of
crude for so long, I couldn't wear a white shirt for
years afterward. Crude oil would leach from my skin
into the fabric.
In those days we all thought oil was found in
subterranean pools, much like underground water
aquifers. Once a pool of oil was found, the trick was
to find out just how large the pool was. Wildcatters
would drill a number of wells in all directions until
they hit "dry holes." The active wells then were used
to pump or draw the underground lake of crude oil dry.
The area in which the active oil wells were located was
called an oil field. If the field turned out to be a
rich one, the wells might continue producing oil for
years before "tapping out." Most fields also were
filled with natural gas, usually causing enough
underground pressure to push the well up through the
well to the surface. The appearance of pumps was a sign
that the oil field was reaching the end of its
productivity and the oil was no longer coming to the
surface on its own.
When an oil well is flowing, the crude comes out of the
ground hot. There is a buildup of a substance called
paraffin along the cooler steel pipe that has to be
scraped away on a regular basis or the pipe eventually
plugs. That was the job I had . . .opening
high-pressure well heads and dropping heavy weights
with steel brushes through the pipe to scrape away the
paraffin. I got to be very good at that job, and knew
the idiosyncrasy of each well in the field almost on a
personal basis.
Oil wells were drilled just about anyplace. Some were
in people's back yards. Others in farm fields. Others
were drilled deep in a wood. I recall one in the middle
of a pond. In the winter we froze, and spent a lot of
our time huddled around barrels of burning crude oil
for warmth. In the summer we worked in the hot sun, our
oil coated skin getting brown as berries. We usually
were surrounded by mosquitoes and biting flies.
In those days I didn't think of crude oil as being bad
for the country. It was a substance used to produce the
fuel that powered the car I drove, the machines we used
on the job, the aircraft that flew over us. It powered
the machines of war and the machines of industry. I
thought it was exciting to be working on a job the
produced such a vital product for the continued
operation of my country. That a lot of people were
getting very rich on the oil we produced was just a
lucky side effect.
I didn't realize until later in life that there had
been a choice. That we took a wrong turn, building
machines and vehicles that burned fossil and air
polluting fuels was the choice made by greedy
industrialists who knew better. They could just as
easily have developed engines that burned hydrogen and
helium, but these abundant gasses were so readily
available they would have been almost impossible to
control. Without control, there was no money to be
made. Thus they chose coal and oil as the fuels of industry
and transportation.
Since then we have been duped into believing that: (a.)
oil, natural gas and coal are the only fuels we have,
(b.) in order for the U. S. to remain strong we must
control the world's major supplies of oil, and (c.)
there is a limited supply of fuel so the companies that
provide it can charge very high prices. This conspiracy
has been going on for a very long time.
The Germans were successfully experimenting with
hydrogen dirigibles powered by hydrogen burning
engines. It is my belief that the terrible 1937 fire
that destroyed the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New York,
was a deliberate sabotage. The media stories that
followed the disaster were very effective. The German
zeppelins were suddenly considered dangerous. Hydrogen
was never used to either lift a dirigible or power an
engine for a long time.
It has only been in recent years that experimentation
with hydrogen powered cars has been started, but there
has not been much support. Yet hydrogen burning engines
exist and they have been shown to be extremely clean
burners that do not pollute the air.
I knew a man who once developed a carburetor that ran
his vehicle on methane gas during World War II when
gasoline was rationed.
I remember the gas crisis of the mid-1970's when
America lost gasoline as a cheap fuel for cars, trucks,
farm tractors and aircraft. There was some kind of
shortage created by a newly formed Middle East oil
cartel and gasoline prices in the United States shot
from 24 cents a gallon to something like $1.50. Cars
were lined up for blocks at the pumps of the few
gasoline stations that had gas to sell. President
Gerald Ford ordered the national speed limit reduced to
55 miles per hour to conserve fuel.
It was all a lie.
Now we have very expensive cars filled with a lot of
complicated automobile emission equipment, designed to
make them stop polluting the air. They also have
catalytic converters that make the exhaust from our
cars smell like rotten eggs. We are using lightweight
aluminum and plastic to make our vehicles so they are
more "fuel efficient." But still our air gets dirtier
and dirtier. People choke on the fumes from the
millions of cars and thousands of carbon burning
factories belching toxic waste into our air.
All lies.
I believe America's so-called "War on Terrorism" is a
front for gaining control of massive oil supplies not
only in the Middle East, but in Southeastern Russia,
near the Afghanistan border. This is the real reason
the Bush Administration wants to attack Iraq.
The U. S. Geological Survey has warned that the world
only has about 10 years of oil left in the ground. If
that isn't cause for a world war, I don't know what is.
Except that this statement also appears to be a lie.
Whitley Strieber, on June 4, revealed in a story on his
web site that geologists have reported that the old
supposedly dried up oil wells we thought were relics of
the past, have mysteriously filled back up with oil.
The stuff seems to be seeping into the caverns we
pumped dry. And it is coming from deep in the Earth.
This phenomenon is happening with old oil fields all
over the world. Some geologists now believe there may
be an almost unlimited supply of oil in the ground. And
it can be found anywhere.
"This brings up questions about what oil and natural
gas are made of," Strieber wrote. "It's always been
thought this is they are the remains of long-dead
plants and animals from dinosaur days. But if oil
exists deep inside the Earth, this can't be true, since
life exists only on the surface of the Earth."
Strieber said Thomas Gold of Cornell "believes oil and
gas are the remains of methane left over from the
Earth's origin. Methane is one of the most common
minerals in the universe. If this is true, we'll be
able to find oil and gas everywhere, if we dig down
deep enough."
For some, this might seem like good news. I think,
however, that it is terrible news. It means that even
if the greedy oil barons can be exposed as the money
grabbing frauds they are, we probably will never have
cheaper fuel.
And it also means that the quest for alternative
environmental friendly fuels will be abandoned once
again, at a time when we are already choking on the
foul air that will eventually kill us all.
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