06-08-2008, 10:32 AM
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Dead on balls accurate...
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by vito
To get back on topic though, I have a buddy thats a roughneck on a offshore drilling rig in the gulf. According to him there are 6 ports in the world capable of building these rigs, and he says there is currently one being constructed at every one of them, at a cost of billions++ each with a working life span of 30 or so years. His rational is that if there were infact a global shortage of oil the energy companies would simply be patching up the old ones. Therefore the conclusion is that all of this hysteria about running out of oil is nothing but fear mongering and dirty politics on a grand scale. Im not saying I buy this, but I would say it's a reasonable, and plausible scenario. Something to think about.
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Exactly
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