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18. Why does a nation that pumps more oil than any other nation by a huge margin, and is a major exporter ...

Reply to Aristus (Reply #17)

Fri Nov 28, 2025, 10:39 PM

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... want more oil in a period when it's cheap energy, and there is a huge movement to non fossil fuel derived energy. Even the big petroleum corps have all changed their name from mentioning oil or petroleum to being Exxon Energy, for example.

It's as stupid as his push to rebuild the coal industry.

T Boone Pickens left the oil game and heavily invested in Wind power, an area of the energy supply that is growing quickly. There are thousands of wells that were drilled in the Gulf that were capped because of a petroleum glut.

It's like TACO wants to be the oil industry equivalent of the buggy-whip king.

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