The History Of The Pennsylvania Oil Boom And Petroleum Industry

Oil is being found all over Atlantic oceanic basins and may soon be discovered in other ocean areas around the world. Also, some of the oil wells in Pennsylvania, capped at the end of their production lifetimes, have once again accumulated oil.

I think if you research the term fossil you will answer your own question here!

Really? We have hundreds of oil platforms in the Gulf Of Mexico that have no automatic isolation capability in case of a catastrophe like the one that happened last week?

And we are going to let these geniuses "drill baby drill" off the coasts of Virginia, N. & S. Carolina, Georgia and Florida? Heck, we won’t need tankers or pipelines to bring in the oil, we can just skim it off the beaches every morning.

Because in America, oil companies still don’t accurately valuate the cost such a disaster would have on their own drilling operations, let alone the environment.

Seriously, WTF. WIth lyrics like "Gotta get-get, gotta get-get
Gotta get-get, gotta g-g-g-get-get-get, get-get

Boom boom boom, gotta get-get
Boom boom boom, gotta get-get
Boom boom boom, gotta get-get
Boom boom boom, gotta get-get"

you can’t help but be reminded of great song writers like Bob Dylan.

i think they used way to many, songs like that i have a hard time remembering, if it wasn’t called boom boom pow i’d probably forget half the words! =( with disappointment)
what happend their good songs? like Where is the love and Fergie’s Losing My Ground??

My daughter has a yeast infection and I’ve heard that a bit of tea tree oil in the bath tub can take care of it. What is the ratio of tea tree oil to water to clear it up? Is it possible to put too much? How long does she need to be in the water for this to be effective? I’ve also got her on a pro-biotic and bare bottomed. Any other suggestions?

it is amazing how little these responders know about tea tree oil. it does not mix with water so a drop in water is silly. it is so gentle that that it COULD be applied to the skin directly without carrier oil.If you mix the tea tree oil in carrier oil before you put it in the tub it will not glom it will spread around nicely. also it is absorbed through the skin so direct application is not needed. so what to do? mix 6 drops TT oil into a small amount of carrier oil like safflower or sunflower or grape seed or jojoba but NOT cooking oil like corn or canola. Put the mix in the tub of warm water and swish it around. child could stay in the tub for maybe 10 minutes. do not use a lot of TT oil because it has to be processed by the liver and it could overburden the liver and cause some problems. but 6 drops in a tub is fine. all oils can affect a person with seizure disorder. and last if you are pregnant don’t swish the water with your hand as all oils can possibly cause a problem. other than those 3 issues oils are really safe and TT along with Lavender are among the safest. read up on TT oil at Camdengrey.com

I am working on a project about oil exports. I need to know how much oil that Texas exports to other countries. And i also need to know the same thing for Venezuela. I’ve tried getting these numbers by searching but I can’t get a good figure. If you could leave me a figure for both and also put in a hyperlink to the source where you found the information. Thanks

hi
u can find a good article about it
http://www.iwillguide.com

A lot of folks can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country.

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Well, there’s a very simple answer.

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Nobody bothered to check the oil.

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We just didn’t know we were getting low.

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The reason for that is purely geographical.

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Our OIL is located in:

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ALASKA

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California

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Coastal Florida

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Coastal Louisiana

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North Dakota

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Wyoming

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Colorado

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Kansas

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Oklahoma

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Pennsylvania

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Texas

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Our dipsticks are located in DC

Any Questions? NO? Didn’t think So.

so very true kitty

Here is my persuasive essay on why we should start adopting the ideas and uses of electric cars. Tell em what you think. Sorry it long but hey, i feel like i did good. If there are any questions or mis understandings, just tell me. Thanks

Essay:

If you could drive on the power of the sun, would you? Would you only pay two cents per mile? And would you help the environment for the future to come? I would, and so would you! All of these questions are answered with the electric car. Nearly every household in America owns one car that runs on gasoline and pollutes the atmosphere. We, need to start adopting the ideas and uses of electric cars into our lives; which is to change your gasoline guzzler into a clean, green, electrifying machine! Nissan with the Leaf and Chevy with the Volt are just two E.V.’s to be manufactured for the U.S. in 2010. With groups like “Plug in America” and documentaries such as “Who Killed the Electric Car?”, activists are taking a stand for what’s right! Us American love oil, but with our solar cell technology, we can change our dirty habits and make the switch to green and clean electric vehicles that run on renewable energy!
Electric Vehicles stretch the boundaries of how inexpensive transportation can be. These alternatives are cheaper to keep running when compared to the common gasoline powered cars. For example, when an electric car is up against a 20mpg gas car with gasoline costing $3 per gallon, you spend $0.15 for every mile that you drive. On the other hand, with electricity being the alternative fuel, we pay in kilowatt hours, which would total to about two cents per mile. Over the long run, this is a he amount of savings. Electric cars are cheaper to fuel, but they are also cheaper to maintain. E.V.’s only have one moving part, the motor. No transmissions, gears, sparks or explosions are taking place “under the hood”. No lubricant is needed, so no oil spills to clean up! This would then mean that it does not have to be taken to the shop as much because almost nothing needs to be changed! These cars are much cheaper to maintain than gasoline cars and stay much cleaner! Although electric cars are more expensive to buy from a dealership, they outperform regular petrol cars. They age much slower, and the cars motor never dies because of the so little moving parts inside. But eventually after a decade, your lithium ion batteries start to drain out and lose charge. But instead of buying a new car every couple of years, you just replace the batteries, and they are much cheaper than a new car. Currently, when you purchase a zero emission car in the United States, which E.V.’s are, you can receive up to a $7,500 rebate from the government! In the long run, with the amount of money that you save on the cost or operation and maintenance for E.V.’s, you would save enough money to pay for the car its self! And the best part is, it’s not science fiction, we have the electric alternative technology here today!
We have to go electric, it’s the easiest and most reliable way of alternative transportation. Other options include ethanol, biodiesel, and the most popular, Hydrogen. Yes, these are great way, but they are not readily available to us, unlike electricity. Also, it would cost way more to install hydrogen fueling stations and biodiesel pumps around America instead of electrical outlets. When compared to the most popular other option, hydrogen fuel cells, electric cars win by a long shot, the average hydrogen fuel cell car costs about one million dollars and the technology is just not there yet. We’ve mastered the electric vehicle with over 300 miles to a charge and speed over 100mph, and we should start using it! We need an alternative, and electric is clearly the matter of choice to reduce our dependence on both foreign and domestic oil. As President George W. Bush stated, “America is addicted to oil,” and we need to get rid of our nasty habits. We can start by changing our cars and what they require to run on. Instead of gasoline, we can use electricity, stored in batteries. With battery technology booming, we can extend our ranges to a few hundred mile to a charge! Although the average American only drives about 90 miles per day. Electric cars are said to have a whopping fuel economy of 188 mpg, and are rated as one of the most efficient type of vehicles on the road. They do not waste power when your car is not moving or stuck at a red light , unlike gasoline cars that constantly burn gas. They are only operated when necessary, which saves you power and money! Some have realized the benefits of E.V.’s and how huge they are! Such as in Israel, where they are taking on project “Better Place”, and within a decade, all cars on the Israeli roads will run on electricity, produced from clean and green renewable energy sources!
“The Environmental benefits of E.V.’s are dubious,” stated a California Newspaper in 2003 when GM was about to end their line for the all electric EV1

I think you’ve tried really hard here so well done on that! There are a few problems with the essay though I’d like to highlight.
– Although electric cars are more expensive to buy from a dealership, they outperform regular petrol cars. – In this sense what does "outperform" mean? Are you referring to physical/economical performance? Can you provide a source which backs this up?
- Electric cars are said to have a whopping fuel economy of 188 mpg – Aside from again not highlighting a source for this figure, this is nonsensical. Electric cars cannot be measured in "miles per gallon" as they do not take gallons! Should be "equivalent of" or some such term.
- These cars are much cheaper to maintain than gasoline cars – again, no source of figures to back this up.
- They age much slower – no, everything ages at the same rate. I think what you mean is that electric motors have a longer serviceable life than internal combustion. Again, source required.
- “The Environmental benefits of E.V.’s are dubious,” stated a California Newspaper in 2003 when GM was about to end their line for the all electric EV1 – not sure what this adds?

Let me ask you another question. As most electricity in the world is generated by burning fossil fuels by switching all of the worlds cars to use electricity are we not just moving the pollution from the car to the power station? Can the electricity network handle the increased demand? Surely we need to fix the power plant problem first?!
You’re really good at writing but unfortunately you’ve not convinced me to give up my petrol powered car yet!

There was this town in Pennsylvania that found alot of oil

Do you think we should bomb this town and take their oil

This way we can all get cheap oil

Lay off the hash pipe.

One thing is that the demand for Canadian oil internationally increased the value of the Canadian dollar. Because the Canadian dollar increased in value, the manufacturing sector, which traditionally exported the majority of what it manufactured (usually auto parts headed to the US) was hurt. This took economic power away from Ontario, Canada’s manufacturing hub and reinstated it in Calgary.

Another factor to consider is the effect Alberta’s oil boom has had on economic migration patterns. Provinces like Nova Scotia with weak labour markets have seen many unskilled labourers move to Alberta, creating shortages in local labour markets. For example, in Nova Scotia there is a shortage of brick layers.

Finally, the wealth of Albertans has increased, causing Canadian wealth to increase overall. Its worth remembering that Alberta adding a good deal to GDP now.

This description says YES:

"Here’s a way to make millions of dollars from the oil boom with little money down (and a lesson in the economics of oil exploration). Step 1: Start an independent exploration company. Raise $10 million with a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange or London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

Step 2: Negotiate an exploration license with a national government to DRILLS WELLS off the Gulf of Mexico, in Papua New Guinea, or in another far-off locale. Governments are keen to cash in on the high price of oil and lack the expertise to develop their reserves themselves, so they are fond of royalty agreements or production-sharing agreements, which require them to put no capital down, and encourage investment in exploration, in exchange for a share of revenues once production is underway.

Step 3: DRILL four wells at a cost of $2.5 million each (the average cost of drilling a well in 2006).

Step 4: Suppose a 50% success rate for prospective WELL-DRILLING, which means you’ve got two successful WELLS on your hands. In 2006, the average successful well DRILLED by "independents" contained 160 mboe (million barrels of oil equivalent), so you’ve now got 320 mboe in reserves. These reserves are under the ground, without any equipment to extract them or pipelines to distribute them.

Step 5: Sell your WELLS to a "major" (e.g., Exxon Mobil (XOM), BP (BP), ChevronTexaco (CVX), Royal Dutch Shell). The typical selling price, depending on location and degree of certainty in reserves, is roughly $10 per boe of proven reserves. At 320 mboe, your two successful WELLS are worth $320 million.

You’ve turned $10 million into $320 million in as little as a year!"

http://www.wikinvest.com/wiki/Oil_Exploration_and_Production

You’re kidding, right ??