I know there’s alot of alternatives out there, like corn base, but using corn has placed pressure on the world food supply, I think, we should do all we can, from new oil wells, to wind, solar and nuclear, but in the short term, we should produce all the oil we can, to keep the economy strong
Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less!
We need to become energy independent as soon as possible. We need to drill now while exploring new alternatives. These alternatives will take longer than drilling to help us. In the mean time we will be working towards America becoming independent from foreign oil.
Vote Smart!
Consider Your Children and Grand-Children;
Their Future Is In Our Voting Hands!
Country First!
United We Stand, Divided We Fall!
Here are the lyrics of the song written for the campaign to "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less"
Drill Here Drill Now
Hello…..Is anybody out there listenin’ in Washington D.C.
This is the suffering voice of America crying out for relief
Now I don’t know what a gallon of gas costs up on Capitol Hill
But we sure know what it costs down here in Realityville
And the damage already done has been a mighty heavy toll
And if we’re gonna fix it we gotta start right here at home
CHORUS:
Drill here, drill now
How ‘bout some oil from our own soil that belongs to us anyhow
No more debatin’ we’re tired of waitin’ everybody shout out loud
Drill here, drill now
Every time a foreign tanker pulls up to our shore
They got us over a barrel while they bleed us a little more
And think how much it costs just to bring it all that way
And how many American jobs that’d make if we were drillin’ in the USA
Oh and God forbid if our oily friends should decide to cut us off
We’d be standin’ around with our britches down now listen to me ya’ll
REPEAT CHORUS
Well the winds of change are blowin’
Yes and we recognize that need
But tractors, trucks, cars and planes can’t run on tomorrow’s dreams
So while we’re workin’ on the future we can’t ignore today
Cuz who knows how much time the alternative might take
Somethin’s gotta be done right now cuz friends it won’t be long
Before this great big country comes grinding to a halt
REPEAT CHORUS
Aaron Tippin/Thea Tippin/Philip Douglas/Dan Murph
Songs of Kicking Bird Music(BMI)/TCT Wind(BMI)/Songs of Windswept Pacific(BMI)/All rights obo Songs of Kicking Bird Music and
TCT Wind adm. by Songs of Windswept Pacific/Thea Later
Music(BMI)/LisaMane Music(SESAC)/Loud Hungry Lion Music(BMI)
how fast would a plane traveling at normal transportation altitude need to be going to cause a sonic boom?
It would have to suurpass the speed of sound.
The speed of sound (otherwise known as Mach 1) varies with temperature. At sea level on a “standard day,” the temperature is 59°F, and Mach 1 is approximately 761 mph. As the altitude increases, the temperature and speed of sound both decrease until about 36,000 feet, after which the temperature remains steady until about 60,000 feet. Within that 36,000–60,000 foot range, Mach 1 is about 661 mph. Because of the variation, it is possible for an airplane flying supersonic at high altitude to be slower than a subsonic flight at sea level.
The transonic band (the “sound barrier”) extends from around Mach .8—when the first supersonic shock waves form on the wing—to Mach 1.2, when the entire wing has gone supersonic.
A sonic boom is the thunder-like noise a person on the ground hears when an aircraft or other type of aerospace vehicle flies overhead faster than the speed of sound or supersonic.
Air reacts like a fluid to supersonic objects. As objects travel through the air, the air molecules are pushed aside with great force and this forms a shock wave much like a boat creates a bow wave. The bigger and heavier the aircraft, the more air it displaces.
What oil does not go rancid at high temperatures?
Is olive oil the best? If so, which grade? I want to know your source. If olive oil is not the best, is coconut oil the best?
Why is safflower oil not so good for you?
50 minutes ago – 3 days left to answer.
I think you mean smoking point?
coconut oil is good at high heat…its my fav really.
refined avocado oil is capable of getting hotter (about 570)
Smoking point is relative to where the hydro-and the carbon of a hydrocarbon molecule begin to separate…at which point it becomes unstable….
or did you mean high enviorment temperatures?
how would i make a pictograph of oil production in texas from the first oil boom to the present??
can you give me the dates?
1925 marked one of Gray County’s most important years. When oil was discovered that year, citizens of Gray County had no idea of the vast changes ahead. Pampa soon became home for many oil field hands, promoters, prospectors, and speculators. The third major economic resource had been added – the petroleum industry.
Charles N. Gould, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, discovered the Panhandle Field in 1904 while making a survey of lands along the Canadian River. Gould, under the direction of the U.S. Geological Survey, was to map streams, springs, and underground water for the purpose of locating feasible reservoir sites.
In l916 M.C. Nobles, a wholesale grocer of Amarillo, and T.J. Moore, a traveling salesman for Nobles, consulted with Gould about the possibility of oil in the Texas Panhandle. They employed Gould to return with them to the Panhandle to examine the structure.
The Amarillo Oil Co. was then formed in 1917 after favorable reports were given by both Gould and Robert S. Dewey. A 70,000 acre lease was obtained, being primarily located on the R.B. Masterson and Lee Bivins ranches in Potter County. After a year and two months the first well in the Texas Panhandle, the Hapgood, was completed at a cost of $70,000. The Hapgood with a total depth of 2,605 feet produced 15,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day.
The Burnett No. 2 located on the 6666 Ranch in Carson County was the first oil well drilled in the Panhandle field. Gulf Production Co. drilled the Burnett No. 2 in April, l921, in Section 106, Block 5, I&GN Survey. Its initial production totalled 175 barrels of oil per day. Col. Burk Burnett owned the ranch comprised of 107,520 acres which was located in Carson and Hutchinson counties. The ranch had been purchased from George Tyng of White Deer Lands in 1903 for $2.65 an acre ($284,928.00 total) to satisfy the English bondholders. The money was paid to the New York and Texas Land Co., Ltd., holders of the first lien on the land. If the land had been retained by the White Deer Land Co., it would have brought a fortune to the bondholders.
Gray County citizens then became excited. Pampans built a road to the well with a cultivator that made two furrows, just wide enough for car wheels. The town leaders wanted Pampans to become acquainted with the oil officials and to interest them in coming to Pampa.
When drilling operations were resumed on the Stone Tipton No. 1 McConnell in Carson County both Pampa and White Deer wanted credit for the well. Pampans measured the distance between the towns and the well’s location. They were delighted to find that Pampa was actually closer by three-quarters of a mile. A congregation of Pampa citizens led by Ivy Duncan went to see the well and invited the citizens of White Deer to visit "Pampa’s Well."
The Stone Tipton No. 1 McConnell was only a gas well, and since gas brought only 1/2 cent per thousand cubic feet it had very little value at that time. Interest declined, and the well was eventually capped and remained shut in for a dozen years. Oil was later discovered only 40′ below the original depth. Had it been discovered originally it would have initiated the oil boom at Pampa instead of Borger, where oil was discovered a year after the Pampa well was capped.
The F. Wilcox No. 1 Worley-Reynolds was Gray County’s first oil well. It was located five miles south of Pampa on the Worley-Reynolds Ranch which was formerly a part of White Deer Lands. The well was drilled by Farris, Watts, Collins, and Crosby and was completed on January 31, l925, and is still producing today. Farris later became president of Humble Oil and Refining Co.
The discovery of oil in Gray County had a very definite impact upon the heretofore peaceful life of the ranchmen near the present town of Lefors. Clifton Vincent who was ranching south of Lefors in the late 1920’s recalled, "There was one time that nearly every pumper and fellow living in town had a German police dog. They were good dogs for protection, and Lefors was pretty rough during the oil boom, but they got to killing and chewing up calves and yearlings."
The widespread development in the Panhandle field in 1926 instigated the organization of 110 separate corporations with a combined capital of $15,000,000. These companies were organized in order to develop leases. T.D. Hobart, White Deer Lands manager, wrote of Pampa on February 26, l926, that there was "quite a little stir…" On August 2, l926, he wrote that "excitement is still running high here (Pampa). The town is growing by leaps and bounds, and if most of the locations for oil wells already made should prove a success there is no telling what lengths it will go." August 13, "everything is in a whirl and bustle here now, laying off additions to the town in every direction; in fact everything almost is being changed." August 21 he mentioned that "we are having a great boom at this place owing to the discovery of oil near here."
Towns grew rapidly in 1926. Jobs were plentiful and everyone worked. Building permits in Pampa for April, l926. were $92,680 and then leaped to $65,000 for the first half of June. Bank deposits reached a total of $1,600,000 in July. Pampa school enrollment climbed to 1,016 over 1925 when there were only 506. Postal receipts for the fourth quarter totalled $127,671.45.
Gray County’s first pipe line was laid in 1926 to Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, and Dallas, and to Kansas City, Denver, and Enid, Oklahoma. In June, l931, the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. completed a 22" line to a point near Indianapolis, Indiana. This line connected with lines distributing gas to towns in eastern states. In l932 the Texhoma Natural Gas Co. finished its 24" line to Chicago and other Illinois points. By l938 there were nine gas lines in the Panhandle field.
The oil industry continued to boom in l929 and l930. Besides the Combs-Worley leases, the Davidson, Jackson, Mel David, Bull, and Bowers were listed among those most productive. Pampa grew more in proportion than any other town in the county. Leases were selling anywhere from one to five dollars an acre. After rotary drilling was introduced to the Panhandle, the average time to drill a 3,000 foot well was 20 days. Today the same depth well takes approximately four to five days.
Several of the oil wells of particular interest in the Gray County oil development include the Taconian No. 1 Sullivan drilled two miles southwest of Pampa by independent producers. The well was completed in l930 for 20,000 barrels of oil per day. The 40-acre oil lease sold a few years later for $800,000.
One of the most expensive leases was purchased by Phillips Petroleum Company when it paid $1 million for the north half of Section 88, Block B-2 located ten miles southeast of Pampa. They later bought the south half of the same section for $1.2 million.
A record producer is Texas Company’s No. 1 Bowers, eight miles southeast of Pampa. This well produced more than two million barrels of crude by 1952.
i could get the data only till here.
u better check out the sites related to Texas history.
Am looking for early photos of Burkburnett, Texas’ oil boom
starting at turn of century through the nineteen twenties.
Oil field workers using horse drawn equipment, early oil
rigs, oil field scenes. Downtown area as well as residentals, such as tent cities, etc.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/railroad/oil/page1.html
http://www.odessahistory.com/burksosi.htm
I hope these websites help.