interesting info about carbon capture tech

CO2 capture is being blocked by so called environmentalists because you need pipe lines to connect the place where it's captured to the place where it's stored.
Not sure who’s blocking what, but the pipelines are being built as we speak and the corps are using the eminent domain to take over the land they need for the construction.

It’s likely just theatrics until everything is ready.


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USA is a net exporter of crude oil and has been since 2020. Even the lying EIA agrees.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php

Cheap oil provides almost free fuel source of Nat gas for electricity - which is 43% of electricity produced here. Without cheap USA oil, natural gas would cost at least 3X. Ask Europe.

So your EV is powered by cheap USA produced fossil fuels. Just correcting the record.
Sure but as you know oil is priced globally so the less oil you use the less of an effect price fluctuations have on your daily life. IOW no reasons to go to war in the ME just so one can have the luxury of filling up their Raptor at $3/gal.
 
Sure but as you know oil is priced globally so the less oil you use the less of an effect price fluctuations have on your daily life. IOW no reasons to go to war in the ME just so one can have the luxury of filling up their Raptor at $3/gal.
Its really much simpler than that.

The US produces enough for our own use. As mentioned above, we have a problem getting it to the west Coast, and they couldn't refine it (currently) if we did - but in BTU terms, we make enough.

From 1974 until 2014 US producers were not allowed to export. Period. That law was relaxed, but the law is written such that the President can freeze that law at will.

So if a shooting war happens in the middle east, and global prices go to $200 a barrel - the US president simply says "no exports". Then the price is based on supply and demand here.

People on this board are working off 1970's middle east fearmongering. Look at my chart in post 18. We have a oil surplus globally.

Now the big problem were going to have is the end of the decade. Either we will be short oil - because we are not investing in infrastructure for it. Or we will be short electricity, because we will be short Nat. gas - unless someone starts building reactors really quick like.
 
Its really much simpler than that.

The US produces enough for our own use. As mentioned above, we have a problem getting it to the west Coast, and they couldn't refine it (currently) if we did - but in BTU terms, we make enough.

From 1974 until 2014 US producers were not allowed to export. Period. That law was relaxed, but the law is written such that the President can freeze that law at will.

So if a shooting war happens in the middle east, and global prices go to $200 a barrel - the US president simply says "no exports". Then the price is based on supply and demand here.

People on this board are working off 1970's middle east fearmongering. Look at my chart in post 18. We have a oil surplus globally.

Now the big problem were going to have is the end of the decade. Either we will be short oil - because we are not investing in infrastructure for it. Or we will be short electricity, because we will be short Nat. gas - unless someone starts building reactors really quick like.
Price controls don't work. You know that.
 
How much of the .0389% of the atmosphere, which is the CO2 percentage, are we trying to get rid of? Can't get rid of all of it, everything that is green and alive needs it to live.
There's no man made way to remove CO2 from the atmosphe that makes sense.
I'm saying capture it at the source and do something useful with it like shoot it down a old oil well to get more oil out of it.
 
(my thoughts)
The more CO2 the cheaper food as food production is more efficient with higher CO2, if we reduce CO2 it will could strain the food supply since crops now grow in a higher CO2 atmosphere. I suspect plant technology can maybe over come that. The more CO2 in the air, the better food crops and all plants will grow.
 
And again you missed the whole point, just like you missed the whole point of the thread to begin with.

US is a net exporter of crude, and 43% of US electricity is produced by Natural gas, and most of that comes as a byproduct of shale oil production - ie its almost free you just need to ship it. There still flaring gas in the bakken. Without that gas our electricity would be much more expensive.

Now we do have a refining problem, but that problem resides on the West coast because they never connected to the US production system East of the Rockies. So their refineries still use foreign crude. In fact a lot more of it is now coming from Canada, as another member has here has posted several times.

The refineries in Houston and other Eastern locations refine USA oil. We do ship crude out of the gulf coast for other locations so they can refine it. And even in some cases we ship foreign refined product back in East of the Rockies. But it doesn't change the fact that were net exporters of crude, and our refining issues are direct results of poor decisions on our part, not ability, IMHO. OPEC is pretty much irrelevant to the US at this point.
Isn’t the reason we import because we don’t have the refineries that are needed to refine the USA crude, as it is different then Saudi crude that is more needed for oils etc….? Just like different kinds of metals are used for different applications, so are different crude oils makeup.
 
(my thoughts)
The more CO2 the cheaper food as food production is more efficient with higher CO2, if we reduce CO2 it will could strain the food supply since crops now grow in a higher CO2 atmosphere. I suspect plant technology can maybe over come that. The more CO2 in the air, the better food crops and all plants will grow.

Yes, but that would make co2 look good actually. We definitely don’t want that.

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