EIA: US oil production in 2015 expected to be highest since 1972
Additionally, EIA estimates that US total crude production during May averaged nearly 8.4 million b/d—the highest monthly average production since March 1988.
With the Atlantic hurricane season commencing June 1, EIA believes production will be minimally disrupted, relying on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s prediction that the Atlantic Basin will likely experience near normal or below-normal tropical weather through Nov. 30.
Mean estimates of shut-in production by EIA in the federal Gulf of Mexico during that period total 12 million bbl of crude oil and 30 bcf of natural gas. During last year’s hurricane season—the first season without a major hurricane since 1994—shut-ins to gulf production halted only 3.1 million bbl of crude oil and 6.7 bcf of gas.
http://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/06/eia-us-oil-production-in-2015-expected-to-be-highest-since-1972.html
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to both fossil and nuclear but no they spent too much time trying to paint lipstick on that nuclear pig to where we find ourselves today, dependent on fossil and nuclear. It sucks that the powers to be didn't realize that nuclear has too much baggage early on. Nuclear wasn't a well though out process. It seems as if they quit thinking when they figured out how to make steam. Not much thought when into the unknowns like what to do when accidents happen. Accidents are going to happen no matter how much one wants to think its impossible.
Nuclear energy is the biggest boondoggle of all time. It never was going to be the all in that the industry tried to convince us it was going to be.
I didn't have anything to do with increasing the level of co2 by working to stop pso from building a nuclear power plant a few miles up wind from me here. Nuclear never was much more than 20 percent of our energy mix at the height of the nuclear age. All it did was slow down the development of alternates by siphoning money and precious time away from the development of a more benign form of energy.
You can sit there and point fingers all you want but I'll only bend them right back at you.
I don't buy your its my fault bullshit 
Nuclear power definitely wasn't a well thought out process - just the (lack of) waste disposal
issue proves that, never mind the techno-utopian dismissal of both human error and technological
failure (*).
That is not my point and it is not something I will even attempt to defend.
The world is corrupt, short-sighted & largely incompetent and the nuclear industry is
in no way, shape or form at the better end of the scale. They were definitely right to protest.
You can now drop that strawman.
My point was that by being such uniformly single-issue protesters, they handed the game to
the truly destructive part of the opposition: the fossil fuel industry. Win the battle, lose the war.
Their goal was to shut down nuclear power stations. This they have largely achieved.
Their "hope" was that this would "somehow" magically boost the embryonic alternative energy industry.
Their folly was to fail to understand that the well-established, rich & powerful fossil fuel industry
would simply turn their backs on the idealists and carry on with the decades of "business as usual".
You can try to "bend fingers" and deflect as much as you want but you can't avoid the sad truth.
(*) Speaking of which, it's amusingly ironic that some of the same protesters are fully on board
with - and actively supporting - highly dangerous techno-utopian scams like "CCS", "clean coal",
food to fuel & "geo-engineering". Life's funny like that.
I was talking about me personally, not other protesters. I tend to agree with what you said though
I try to proof read so I don't leave any doubt what I'm saying but sometimes I fail
Should have read My hope rather than The hope so I get where you're coming from going off on the protesters
When I say the powers to be I'm referring to the people developing the technology, not politicians or any one individual, rather the whole of them
For some back story. I was accepted by the navy for nuclear submarine duty and that was my plan until about two weeks from graduating from boot camp (23 weeks in) they tell me I have to extend for 2 more years if I want to go to the nuke subs. Lots of schools involved and that was what the extra two years was for. At that point I was pretty disillusioned in the whole Navy deal so I opted out. Came back to boot and trained new recruits for six months then went to SERE school then was left there for a year to help in SERE training, then off to the War I was trying to stay out of when I joined the navy to begin with.
Funny how life is like that
I was fascinated by nuclear energy. One of the guys who went to our church was a mathematician and worked on the Manhattan Project developing the bomb. He was deathly scared of the use of nuclear energy, peaceful or during war. I remember setting around a weed fire, (to keep the mosquito away,) at night listening to my dad and him talking about things, nuclear was one of the topics due having just won the war by use of two Atomic
bombs.
to the recent peoples feelings of winning the second world war. Anyways I got interested in the technology early in high school but the navy kind of shot that out the window for me. If they'd told me to begin with it was going to be a six year enlistment I'd probably not had a problem with it but as it was there was no way at that point in time, having gone through boot camp and getting a glimpse of what the Navy really was like. I said fuck that, get me out of here as quick as possible.
Now that I think about it back when I was just a kid listening to the conversations it was referred to as Atomic Energy. Nuclear came later
... and not only do I make worse mistakes in communication, I'll also be quick to
admit that hindsight makes life so easy ...
