which destroy the environment with imported oil
203455
Driving to Wal-mart in your SUV.
273323
DESTROY THE HUMAN RACE AND SAVE THE PLANET
105399
Exactly. A far bigger emphasis should be put on environment protection than it is getting now. Everybody and every country is only looking at their own interests while the amazing rainforests are being cut and the waters full of oil.. \nI'm from east Europe, air pollution is a big problem here too, still only few people think and talk about these. I hope they won't realise the importance of this when it will be already irreversible.
68670
Supercritical carbon dioxide at high pressure can be used to remove (clean) oil and grease from contaminated material.  As the CO2 expands it removes the oil and grease allowing it to be separated out and the CO2 can be recycled for further use.
356018
We will never be independent until the oil and coal tycoons are no longer in silent power.  Until presidential candidates are no longer allowed to take campaign donations from these companies, no government official will enforce a law for E85, or any other like it.  We should because it is the best for our environment.  We will not need to level entire ridges for coal seams or spill oil and cause much destruction to natural habitat.  The health of the nation will improve, and the earth will be much better for it, but I don't foresee it ever happening in my lifetime.
360862
Big oil=big corruption.\n\nThey need to be investigated and charged.
330271
Not necessarily.  Oil that spills on the ground or into the water and is *never* recovered is a waste, but there's still plenty of energy inherent to the oil to make it worthwhile -- if the price is right.\n\nThe fact that the oil gushes out of the ground is because the drilling process has punctured a "bubble" (for lack of a better term) of petroleum that is under high pressure underground.  The puncture releases that pressure and forces the oil to the surface.  Now the trick is to control that flow without wasting any.\n\nOnce we control the flow of oil, it is then processed to make the petroleum products we have come to rely on so heavily -- motor oils, gasoline, aircraft fuels, kerosene, diesel, etc.\n\nA few years back, I was on the island of Aruba.  We visited one of the largest petroleum refineries in the world there -- produced something like 70% of the aviation fuel used by the Allies during the Second World War.  All the waste products they didn't need were dumped in a giant slag heap on one end of the island.\n\nForty years later, when oil prices had risen significantly, it became economically feasible to recycle that petroleum slag heap to produce more useful fuels from it.  So it didn't go to waste, it just wasn't the time.
166657
No...besides the environmentalist would think we are trying to dump oil into the oceans when you compare it to the Boston Tea party...\n\nwhy not drill in Anwar
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but this is imports: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html\n\nProduction for the US: http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/infosheets/crudeproduction.htm\n\nA few major countries:\nhttp://www.chartoftheday.com/20060120.htm?T\n\nThis one is for 2004:\nhttp://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/topworldtables1_2.html\n\nYou can probably find a similar for 2005.\n\nThe main page is here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html
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Most would be content to get rid of cars until it comes to their own. Not realizing that horses polluted the ozone far more than cars we have today. No sense in complaining because in some cases an environmental check is good for us as long as it does not brake the bank and this won't. It may be possible that because of them(greenies) there will be alternative modes of extraction. Now there is only a few modes of extraction wherein only 20% efficiency is obtained. The realm of perpendicular drilling has not been explored yet. Mark my words you will see those things explored very shortly.
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you will use more energy transporting the sand, and will mess up sea's environment.
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I wouldn't like to see it drilled. We need to just suck up and pay for the upgrade of our society to more renewable sources of fuel. The alternative sources won't mess up the ecosystem as much and it will create jobs. After all, that area is supposed to be untouchable natural land. Let it stay that way, especially if the only reason to ruin it would be to save money.
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The environmentalists and congress are to be blamed. The environmentalists won't let us drill offshore, every time the oil companies try they take them to court, they fight every effort to drill in ANWAR. The stupid republicans don't have the guts to stand up for it. Then we can't build new refineries because some treehugger is worried about a tree slug or some other worthless animal. When oil prices were low it was to expensive for oil companies to invest in new equipment, now that oil prices are up they are starting to re-invest, but it will take time.\n\nOh one other thing is all these stupid blends in this country that is mandated by the government that really don't do anything. Then forcing the oil companies to waste time on ethanol doesn't help either.\n\nWhile some local stations collude on what they are going to charge. (I have been in a gas station when another station has called to ask what they are charging that day).
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The people who cross illegally into the US through remote areas, for example along the US-Mexico border do not consider the impact of their presence on the environment. They leave behind plastic water bottles and gallon jugs, clothing, blankets, backpacks, soiled diapers and other human waste.  They are also responsible for many wilderness fires when their campfires get out of control or are not properly extinguished.\n\nThe law enforcement agents also have an impact on the environment - they need roads to get into the remote locations to patrol the area.  If fencing is constructed, staging sites, heavy machinery and construction crews have an added environmental impact.
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http://www.seap.sg/ppiweb/seasia.nsf/$webindex/B80F459E5FF5A02B48256C29002DF14B?opendocument&navigator=oil+palm
194430
Economic development doesnt preclude, infact it may very soon require, technological forrays into alternative energy production.  A current trend in the commercial sector is that consumers and investors are favoring environmentally friendly corporations.  Therefore, by the economic law of supply and demand, those corporations that avoid environmentally deleterious policies, such as relying on crude oil, will prosper, since they are 'supplying' environmental responsibility, for which demand is currently soaring.  It is shortsightedly immature of us to not move off crude oil quicker, infact.  We underestimate the damage oil does to the health of the worldwide human population, in terms of military repurcussions, adverse health effects, and of course, the environmental consequences.
154950
Although there's a lot of oil left in the world, and we agree that there's roughly 900 to 1,000 gigabarrels of oil left in the world, you need to put that in context. Up until the Carter years, every decade, we used as much oil as had been used in all of previous history. Now, with exponential growth, if you're at about a 7 percent growth rate, and we were using oil at about 7 percent more per year, the world was, that explains how we got on that curve. Now, the fact that we have about half of all the oil that was ever in the world still there, doesn't mean that the next 50 years, 100 years are going to be like the last 50 years, 100 years, because the world is now demanding a whole lot more oil. Last year, China increased their use probably 25 percent. In less than three years, that doubles their use of oil. They probably won't continue on that growth path, but India's increasing. China's now the No. 2 importer in the world. What are the consequences of this? Boy, economic and geopolitical. When the world recognizes that there's only so much oil that can be produced, and we need more oil -- by the way, if our economy doesn't grow at least 2 percent a year, we can't service our debt. And if we don't think the economy's growing at 2 percent a year, the stock market starts tanking. You know, we have to get used to the fact that there is not going to be oil in the quantities there have been in the past available in the future, and we should have started a long time ago, 'cause we knew -- the world knew -- by at least 1980, that M. King Hubbert was right about our country. If he's right about the United States, why shouldn't he be right about the world? And we should have been doing some things that we've now blown 25 years, that we could have been doing some very meaningful things to prepare for this time when the world reaches its peak ability to produce oil. We didn't do those things then. We really need to start doing them now.