Oil is virtually everywhere, it is just easier to drill some places than others. The Middle East is an oil pool under sand – particularly easy to drill. Everyone wants the easiest to get, oil, metal, bread, sex, clothing, houses. (You would be shocked at the houses that are seldom shown because the owner makes it difficult to show. Realtors show those most available, most cooperative.)
Almost half the US is federal lands that are off-limits.
As we can see, few corporations have the technical ability to drill in 5,000 feet of water. WWII submarines could only go 400 feet deep. Today’s very costly nuclear submarines can go almost 10 times that deep but still not to 5,000 feet and when they eventually can they are not equipped to do that sort of work…that work is done by robots.
Our government does not have the technical skill to drill for oil, and it is even more technically difficult to solve a massive problem at that depth.
The government depends on BP because it MUST!
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