Jun 19, 2015 ... When the federal government last changed its royalty rate for oil and gas  production on America's public lands, Standard Oil's monopoly had only recently  been broken, Ford's Model A still had not rolled off the assembly line, the Teapot  Dome scandal had yet to erupt and rock the U.S. Department of the ...
Mar 28, 2016 ... “Even if you stop pouring, the water is still there spreading out, and it's very  difficult to stop it,” he says. The largest quakes, including one that reached  magnitude 4.8—strong enough to knock objects off shelves but generally not  damage buildings—struck in 1967 and then gradually petered out. Residents ...
If there will in fact be 178 million motor vehicles on American highways by 1985,  the NPC estimates that our oil needs will increase by about 85 percent. .... For  example, while Hubbert doubts that the unexplored Atlantic shelf will ultimately  yield as much as ten billion barrels of oil, a few "boomer geologists" have glibly ...
While the Obama administration is focused on windmills and solar power, China  is betting that oil will be the dominant energy fuel for many, many years. .....  There's a moratorium in the Gulf that remains to be lifted and a Democratic  moratorium preventing drilling for oil in Rocky Mountains shale is still in effect  and must be ...
Jun 22, 2012 ... President Obama advocates expanding production of all energy sources,  including oil, gas, nuclear power, wind and solar, while warning that the United  States ... “Many U.S. resources have been off-limits for decades,” says Rayola  Dougher, a senior adviser with the American Petroleum Institute, the oil ...
There are billions of barrels of oil beneath our oceans and in Alaska, and there is ample oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West, but Democrats "say all this American energy is off limits."