re: Oil and gas folks please explain the whole oil /gas scarcity thing to me

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Nah. Even in the US there are several places that easily recoverable oil exist. It’s just off limits due to politics and NIMBY folks.

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Sixty miles due east of the Florida / Georgia state line on the Blake Plateau is one.

Destin Dome offshore Florida's West Coast is another. Florida has managed to politically avoid offshore drilling to protect their tourism industry.

Virginia offshore had some promise with State and Federal drilling permits approved until BP's Deepwaterv Horizon blowout killed it. Nothing else geophysically promising on the Atlantic Coast; the GoM is 10x more favorable geologically.

Offshore California lol but not much there, offshore Oregon & Washington State geology, nope just rocks no oil, it's been drilled.

Alaska Bering and Chukchi Seas perhaps but have a blowout there in winter and you're not killing it until summer. Fisheries industry would croak.

On U.S. Federal land, Alaska's vast ANWR requires a very tiny footprint for safe and significant production and pipeline transport. That's where I'd go if ever approved.