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Off-Shore Oil Drilling
And Investing
News America - July 19, 2008
As realists, we need to come to terms with the fact that any oil which is
"burned off" is not a renewable resource and
that, at current consumption rates, we are, in fact, running out of oil. While serving as a Senior Measurement Analyst on behalf of all of the major oil companies,
I assessed the internal calculations generated by the oil industry experts stating that the United States has approximately twenty years of "easy" oil remaining
underground (thirteen years, now), with other
nations following right behind.
This means that all other petroleum is, either, unextractable or cannot be
extracted cost-effectively. A good example of this is oil sand. Although oil is being extracted from sand, such as
in Canada, enormous quantities of sand must be
processed in order to extract small amounts of tar oil which, then, must be diluted in order to derive a usable liquid. The quantities of money which are
being invested in such cost-prohibitive extractions and processes are, generally, being funded by taxpayer dollars ...or no company would bother to dig.
Thus, offshore oil drilling and investing are being promoted. Any such
process which is funded by taxpayers, however,
costs the taxpayers at least thrice ...in taxes, at the pump, and in increased costs of consumer products. No good can come of it, in the long run.
One need only walk along the filthy beach in Long Beach, California, to see
some of the inevitable effects of offshore
drilling. Long Beach was, once, a pristine playground of the wealthy. Then, a team of oil companies created and disguised two near-by offshore islands
for drilling. They look so pretty at night with the palm trees and colored lights highlighting the artificial waterfalls. It looks almost Hawaiian.
I, recently, walked along this same beach, observing the black-streaked sands,
which used to be a uniform pale beige. There
was a three-year-old girl digging in the sand by the shoreline, slathering the wet sand all over her body. Usually, I would consider this to be a delightful
sight, worthy of a photograph. Yet, she was covered, head to toe, with dark, wet, gray clay. Not yet clay, really. Rather, it was sand so polluted
with oil that it appeared to be dark, gray,
wet clay ...and, without reprieve, someday, it will be clay. I was repulsed. Directly across the water from the little girl was one of the decades-old, offshore
drilling islands. The American coastline is prime real estate. What are we doing?
Moreover, there is little oil under the majority of the ocean floors, except
along continental shelves. The majority of
America's oil is throughout the center of the United States, in one huge, multi-state, underground pool. And, as Americans, we really have no right instigating
wars in foreign lands in order to secure oil rights. America was created to, above all, be an ethical nation.
Naturally, you may invest in offshore
drilling ...if you do not care much about clean oceans for your descendants, real estate value, tacit extortion of legislators and of our hard-earned
taxpayers' dollars to fund wealthy corporations [including foreign oil companies], et alii. It is far more beneficial, as long term investments, to invest in natural
gas, solar and wind energies, the
new electric car batteries, and an integrated national and regional rail system, from trains to subways to buses. Nuclear should be used, solely, as a back-up
and the diminished oil reserves secured and
saved by the Federal Government for any potential future emergency, such as World War III ...which, at the current rate of Congress' policy error, by the Law of Cause and Effect, which
invariably functions with mathematical
precision (=), is more, rather than less, likely.
Ford is, also, a great investment, given that the Ford family has vowed to
keep Ford and remain within the UnitedStates.
They, too, will be going the way of electric, soon, with oil being used as lubricant, rather than as fuel. Good for you, Ford ...all American!
Jane Smith
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Maximize The Return On Your Business
Investment:
TELECOMMUTING
With specific exceptions, such as factory piece-workers, for the price of a telephone
call, most employees are readily capable of performing their jobs from the comfort of their homes, if their employers will
simply permit them to do so. Such employees include Accountants, Office Clerks, Secretaries, et alii.
As
such, if you retrofit your company to meet the demands of a technologically-rich global business environment, while meeting
the ever-increasing energy costs, by telecommuting as many employees as plausible, you will help your company to generate
a Public Relations miracle, and help to maximize your profits, as well, given that the largest expense of any business tends
to be that of labor and supplies.
I do not ascribe
to the "human resources" theory that the average employee cannot be trusted to work within such a private environment. Why
would you hire someone, in the first place, whom you did not even trust with your company's assets?
Nevertheless,
you need sufficient incentive prior to changing anything about your current system. Although the fact that you find
it more convenient to slip out of the shower and sit at your computer in your robe does not qualify as "sufficient", this
is an excellent time to turn such an elective into a Public Relations coup.
In fact, all
of the following incentives for allowing maximal telecommuting within your company possess bottom-line value:
. Heavily over-crowded highways and pollution
. Diminishing oil reserves
. The rising costs of steel and energy, and
. Shifting corporate energies within an increasingly global economy,
resulting in increasing outsourcing and adjusted strategies, in order to minimize overhead expenses.
If you were
to view recent news videos which were broadcast from South Africa, Beijing, Los Angeles, Rio, Paris, London, et caetera,
you would see a disturbing global trend ...extreme traffic congestion enveloped by gray skies of acidic smoke, black
and brown acid rain coating arctic ice, polluted fresh water sources, dying cities, drying Great Lakes - the world is gagging
to death upon consumerism ...and upon commuting to work.
Any company executive who, swiftly, takes advantage of this current opportunity to shift to maximized telecommuting
for any and all company employees who do not absolutely need to be at the facility in order to perform
their given jobs properly, can become a "hero" for the world's corporate executives to emulate. Earth is choking to
death and just waiting for an heroic company to publicly announce that, in order to cease polluting unnecessarily, "the company"
is actively pursuing
permitting telecommuting for as many of it's employees as possible, thereby diminishing company costs while maximizing efficiency
and, thus, profitability.
If you present
a skillfully-organized transitional program and a proper management system for telecommuters, including a listing of essential
fixed assets, peripherals, and office supplies, and a Management Oversight strategy, you will discover that it is much more
cost-effective to manage all of the new telecommuters than a fully internal labor force.
I will grant
you that it is unfair for anyone to have to perform so great an analysis without advance payment! Nevertheless, if you
organize your
ideal program, you, also, might enjoy the benefits of working in the leisure of your favorite
easy chair at home, as a frequent telecommuter yourself, enhanced by a vast increase
in profits as a bonus!
If you do not
own the company for which you work, you will probably need to perform the analysis for presentation without advance payment.
Nevertheless, the results will be well-worth your efforts ...maybe the Vice-Presidency?
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