RE: Astounding Oil Revelation

I used to own that book and I used to work for ARCO. When I read the
book, everything the guy said was pure horse manure. I asked around the
company and no one could verify for me that he actually worked for ARCO
or Alyeska. I no longer have that book but as I recall, he said that
there were lots of reserves in some wells which were abandoned. IF, and
that is a very big if, he was actually there he probably got confused by
the fact that almost every well has oil, but most of the zones won't
flow. So unless we get a big shovel and dig some mighty deep holes, we
won't see any of that oil

I hate the way one of these articles calls him a 30-year veteran oil
executive. He is no oilman at all.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu
> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Al Koop
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 8:37 PM
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Astounding Oil Revelation
>
>
> And many of you sometimes wonder why you have trouble getting
> the idea of evolution through to people?
>
> Here a chaplain (no less) tells us that we have 200 years of
> oil for the US in Alaska. Read the article at
>
> http://www.pushhamburger.com/hidden.htm
>
> and read the reviews of the book it was based on:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0890510687/qid=1
> 089467085
>
>
> Here is the article:
>
> Huge Alaska Oil Reserves Go Unused
>
> After 30 years, an insider finally acknowledges the United
> States has all the oil and gas it needs.
>
> By Marie Gunther
>
> The United States has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia but
> this happy though shocking information has been covered up for years.
>
> The wells have been drilled, it's merely a matter of turning
> on the faucets to supply America's needs for 200 years.
>
> These astounding revelations have been confirmed by a 30-year
> veteran oil executive with leukemia who has decided to speak out.
>
> In 1980, Lindsey Williams wrote a book, The Energy
> Non-Crisis, based upon his eye witness accounts during the
> construction of the Trans- Alaska pipeline. As a chaplain
> assigned to executive status and the advisory board of
> Atlantic Richfield & Co. (ARCO), he was privy to detailed information.
>
> "All of our energy problems could have been solved in the
> '70s with the huge discovery of oil under Gull Island,
> Prudhoe Bay, Alaska," Williams said. "There is more pure
> grade oil there than in all of Sau di Arabia. Gull Island
> contains as much oil and natural gas as Americans could use
> in 200 years."
>
> Oddly though, immediately after this massive discovery, the
> federal government ordered the rigs to be capped and oil
> production shut down.
>
> Developing Alaskan oil would make the United States
> completely independent of oil imports, Williams said in his book.
>
> Why is the government covering up such good news? Why does it
> want to be dependent on imported oil? Do international
> financiers who are heavily invested in the oil industry want
> to keep the supply limited and prices up?
>
> Will the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee,
> chaired by Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), investigate what
> could be a criminal cover-up? Will the appropriate House
> committees in quire? Or the Justice Department? Since the
> cover-up has extended through four presidential
> administrations, only public outrage can force action.
>
> "Everything you hear on the evening news and out of
> Washington is garbage," said Jim Lawler, an oil production
> manager with ARCO. "Eight wells have already been drilled in
> the areas environmentalists are claiming we must not go in.
> We have already been in and out. There was no damage done.
> All we need to do is start production."
>
> The mainstream media is mind-molding public opinion by
> repeatedly showing running caribou, touting
> environmentalists' claims that the caribou and other
> endangered species and habitats would be destroyed.
>
> "The Alaska Fish and Game Depart ment just did a study on the
> por cupine caribou in Prudhoe Bay. The size of the herds has
> increased since 1969 by 35 percent. The pipeline area is a
> protected designation and the caribou have figured this out.
> They have migrated into this area for protection," Lawler said.
>
> The Alaskan pipeline was built in 1977 and runs from Prudhoe
> Bay to the southern shores of Alaska in Valdez.
>
> Lawler maintains that several things can be done to reduce
> American energy bills.
>
> The Alaskan pipeline can be permitted to run at full
> capacity. In addition, the Department of Energy can allow a
> new pipeline to be built across Canada and con nected to the
> existing system in the United States.
>
> Alaska can also ship oil to the West Coast immediately.
> Alaskan oil is of such high grade and low sulfur content that
> it can be utilized at any refinery, without damage to the environment.
>
> "Currently, an estimated 4,000 barrels a day are liquefied at
> Prudhoe Bay, but government regulation controls that limit,"
> added Lawler.
>
> Liquefying is the process by which oil sludge brought from
> the ground is pro cessed to be transported.
>
> Lawler said the existing Alaskan pipe line was built to hold
> another four-foot diameter pipe above it, which could be used
> for natural gas. However, he said it "is not necessary
> because the Alaskan pipe line has never been permitted to run
> at full capacity."
>
> This same situation can be multiplied in Wyoming, Texas and
> other oil-productive areas across the country. The government
> has imposed strict orders not to produce.
>
> And in a real emergency, Lawler contends hydrogen plants can
> sprout up in less than six months with just a nuclear reactor
> placed at sea.
>
> "One nuclear reactor can power all of Los Angeles," Lawler said.
>
> Natural gas is readily available; Prudhoe Bay has 48 747-jet
> engines pumping one billion cubic feet of natural gas back
> into the ground 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They have
> nowhere else to put the natural gas.
>
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 12 22:34:06 2004