{"id":2032,"date":"2014-11-25T13:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2014-11-25T13:59:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:59:33","slug":"challenging-crude-convention-daniel-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2032","title":{"rendered":"Challenging (Crude) Convention\u00a0|\u00a0Daniel Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/daniel-davis\/challenging-crude-convent_b_6175278.html\">Challenging (Crude) Convention\u00a0|\u00a0Daniel Davis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Media reports regarding the American crude oil industry have been uniformly positive in the past few months. Oil prices have dropped to their\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/10\/17\/gas-prices-at-lowest-level-since-2010\/17463509\/\" target=\"_hplink\">lowest level since 2010\u00a0<\/a>and along with it prices at the pump. According to some reports,\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/instituteforenergyresearch.org\/analysis\/u-s-overtakes-saudi-arabia-russia-worlds-biggest-oil-producer\/\" target=\"_hplink\">the US now produces\u00a0<\/a>as much or more oil than either Saudi Arabia or Russia. As the US closes in on energy independence, our reliance on foreign suppliers dwindles.\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2013\/11\/congratulations-america-youre-almost-energy-independent-now-what-98985.html#.VEWjvJWBGpo\" target=\"_hplink\">Some suggest\u00a0<\/a>we are nearing a time of oil and economic security not seen in decades. If only that were true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The above rendering of events is taken, almost without examination, as gospel truth in the United States. The only subject of debate seems to be ascertaining whether<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/is-fracking-safe-for-the-public-and-environment\/\" target=\"_hplink\">hydraulic fracturing (&#8220;fracking&#8221;) is safe<\/a>\u00a0for the environment of if burning the additional hydrocarbons is\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #683db9; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/our-work\/clean-vehicles\/car-emissions-and-global-warming#.VEWnupWBGpo\" target=\"_hplink\">adding to risks of climate change<\/a>. We find this near-religious belief in looming US oil &#8220;independence&#8221; to be troubling, as a considerable body of publicly available information leads to a very different conclusion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Instead of being on the dawn of a new age of plenty, a careful analysis of all available data indicates the probability of near to mid-term trouble even maintaining current levels of production, let alone eliminating the chasm between US production and consumption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenging (Crude) Convention\u00a0|\u00a0Daniel Davis. Media reports regarding the American crude oil industry have been uniformly positive in the past few months. Oil prices have dropped to their\u00a0lowest level since 2010\u00a0and along with it prices at the pump. According to some reports,\u00a0the US now produces\u00a0as much or more oil than either Saudi Arabia or Russia. 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