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Better we should leave it in the ground. The main Iraqi and Iranian fields which have been in constant production since 1938 are beginning to give out and the quality of oil that comes from them is lower quality. We should cap the wells and say screw it. The Iranian deposits of gas off the Straits of Hormuz will take 20-40 billion Euros to develop. Too long too much money. Forget it. Russian gas and oil is very hard to get at because it's under deep hard rock and has a very high sulfur content which makes the pumping and piping operation slow and expensive. Shut it down. Those Azerbijani fields newly discovered. To hell with them. Ditto Guinea (West Africa).
Clearly the officially blessed and scientifically researched position from Salon on High is to do nothing about everything forever. I concur.
This Month's official Samizdat to which all Salon columnists must strictly adhere contains the following points. You may pick two:
Race race racism race
Drilling for oil (or doing anything vis vis energy) is always bad
Whatever Obama does is divine
FISA
Lather rinse repeat until next month's memos are given to you. Thank you comrades for your free thinking.
