Despite the U.S. decision to end its oil-export ban, the country remains more dependent on foreign oil than when the exports were banned 40 years ago, which raises the issue of peak oil, Forbes writes.*
There go our chances of becoming independent of Mid-East oil. Looks like war until "hell freezes over." Also looks like we can kiss lowering carbon dioxide levels goodbye.
* http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkrancer/2015/12/22/the-end-of-the-crude-oil-export-ban-offers-promise-and-peril/
About Me
- Everett Estes Ford
- Sandhills Area, NC, United States
- Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, the author is a published poet and author of the monograph "Lead Isotopes." He received a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1960 and a D.Sci. (Honorus causa) from the University of Missouri in 1989. As a scientist, he published more than 100 technical papers in the areas of isotope geology, mineral resources, and environmental concerns. He was involved in the Apollo Program and post Apollo Program in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the National Acid Precipitation Program with the National Park Service in the 1980s. He was the first Western scientist to give the Vernadsky Memorial Lecture in Moscow during detente in 1976. He worked for 34 years for the U.S. Geological Survey in a variety of research and administrative positions, including tours as Chief of the Branch of Isotope Geology and as the Assistant Director of Research. He was president of the Geochemical Society, and, as an amateur tennis player, he served as President of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Golden Racquets Tennis Club for two years.
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