Oil is not a fossil fuel, and burning oil does not contribute to global warming. In fact, Peter J. Morgan writing in the Canadian Free Press, says that oil is a renewable resource and that the responsible policy would be to drill it aggressively and burn it cheerfully.
Stalin’s team of scientists and engineers found that oil is not a ‘fossil fuel’ but is a natural product of planet earth – the high-temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction between calcium carbonate and iron oxide – two of the most abundant compounds making up the earth’s crust. This continuous reaction occurs at a depth of approximately 100 km at a pressure of approximately 50,000 atmospheres (5 GPa) and a temperature of approximately 1500°C, and will continue more or less until the ‘death’ of planet earth in millions of years’ time. The high pressure, as well as centrifugal acceleration from the earth’s rotation, causes oil to continuously seep up along fissures in the earth’s crust into subterranean caverns, which we call oil fields. Oil is still being produced in great abundance, and is a sustainable resource – by the same definition that makes geothermal energy a sustainable resource. All we have to do is develop better geotechnical science to predict where it is and learn how to drill down deep enough to get to it. So far, the Russians have drilled to more than 13 km and found oil. In contrast, the deepest any Western oil company has drilled is around 4.5 km.
The hypothesis that oil is a fossil fuel was just that – a hypothesis. Global warming is also just a hypothesis. Both, according to Morgan, are false.
Morgan is no shill for conservative causes. In fact, he blames oil companies for perpetuating the myth that oil is a fossil fuel in order to drive up the price. He goes on to suggest that America’s military-industrial complex won’t have an excuse for meddling in Middle East affairs once we converted to a purely domestic source of supply. Roughly translated, that sounds like “no blood for oil.”
Each of us in our own small way can now burn as much petroleum product as we can afford to put in our cars and boats, safe in the knowledge that (a) oil is never going to run out and (b) all the extra carbon dioxide we produce will not cause global warming, but will help plants, and hence food, to grow faster, thus helping to feed the billions!
And look for oil prices to settle back in at about $30 per barrel.
July 14th, 2008
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Andrew Breitbart writes about the perils of being Republican in Hollywood. Tolerance has its limits.
Convicted murderer? Has anyone optioned the rights to your story?
Avowed Marxist? Viva la revolucion!
Scientologist? Do you take Visa or Mastercard?
Syphilitic drug abuser? Let’s talk!
Conservative? You should go.
One would think that the entertainment industry would entertain. Instead, it seems hell bent on assuming the role of re-education czar and hectoring half of the electorate about their supposed political shortcomings. Ford and Nike cheerfully sell their products to liberals and conservatives alike – no questions asked. Amazon stocks books written for a variety of audiences. However much Hollywood used to be associated with conspicuous wealth, it now seems to place is misguided principles above the pursuit of income.
More than a dozen box office failures vilify the troops without a single counterperspective seeing the light of day. Yet one positive Iraq war film, “Brothers at War,” dares to tell the story of a noble and patriotic American family – but it can’t find a distributor.
The only thing more vilified than a Republican, Breitbart notes, is a practicing Christian. So naturally no one wanted any part of Mel Gibson’s Passion, and Gibson was forced to keep the profits himself. Breitbart concludes:
The litany of negative consequences to the ideological rigidity of modern Hollywood is virtually limitless. The lack of tension between competing ideas has made the arts increasingly tedious and rendered the celebrities woefully uninteresting.
Hollywood hasn’t figured out that the party is quickly coming to an end. The film business is fragmenting. The gate-keepers and king-makers in all forms of entertainment are fading from the scene. But the myopic powers in Hollywood are wedded to producing expensive films, heavy on special effects, short on drama, with story lines that either caricature or offend large segments of their market.
July 14th, 2008
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