BP announces giant oil find

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    Anyone know how that compares to the oils in the middle east?

    Also, I'm torn with this finding. On the one hand, it hopefully means we can invade Great Britain, to gain control over the oil (even though it's off "our" shores)..I hope it doesn't all the sudden mean we revert back to the days of gas guzzlers and wasting oil/petroleum.
     
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    I think Iraq alone has over 112 billion barrels of oil.
     
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    When did they move Great Britain to the Gulf of Mexico?
     
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    The company that discovered the oil is from the UK.
     
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    who owns BP? And where are they located? And what does the B in BP stand for?
     
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    Does this mean that gas prices will go down any?
     
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    BP = British Petroleum
     
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    It might. But even more important, it's a huge source of oil from a non-Middle East country. That's fantastic news for us, and bad news for OPEC.
     
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    Good thing we're not drilling within the USA or we might find a big oil deposit, too.
     
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    Really, we aren't drilling in the USA? That's gonna be surprising news to the oil industry.

    Maybe you meant we aren't drilling everywhere within the USA?

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    We're not drilling where the oil is.
     
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    You point out where the oil is and I'll get my army of 400 million male chickens to start digging.
     
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    We are drilling where the oil isn't? That calls into question the intelligence of the oil companies, doesn't it?

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    Let's go to ANWR.


    Or the regulations that keep them from drilling where they know the oil is. After all, they do have all sorts of equipment to help them figure out where it is.
     
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    Well, if you are prevented from drilling where the oil is, do you drill where it isn't instead? Seems like that would be a waste of money.

    Also, I think that US oil production isn't zero.

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    That stuff relies on computer modeling, which you don't believe in.

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    They're drilling where there was oil, using more expensive techniques to get oil out of rock that's absorbed it, and that sort of thing.

    Uh, no.
     
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