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GW Bush: "The Math doesn't work!"
Yeah, that is a bit of a humdinger. "Arctic believed to hold perhaps twice as much oil as was previously possibly thought."
"Arctic oil possibly twice the size of previous estimates." Hey, that almost makes sense! Doesn't convey the whole picture of course but this is the mass media we're dealing with here.
"Estimates of arctic oil double." I bet they have software generators for this kind of thing.
Perhaps "unfound". Or maybe "pre-found".
It's the green shoots theory of oil. They found a 2nd derivative through imagination and creative software. Rejoice! All our troubles are over.
"times 14.2.84 miniplenty malquoted arctic reserves rectify"
If one can belief the world is 6000 years old, one can go to war for peace, technology will save us, and "they hate us because we are free", it's easy to imagine there are plenty of unearned riches just waiting to be explored below arctic ice.
PaulusP,
Let me update your post a little bit.
If you believe that you can spend trillions of dollars that you don't have, paint roofs white to stop global warming, and take over industries & lay people off to create jobs it is easy to imagine there are plenty of unearned riches just waiting to be explored below arctic ice.
There was an election, remember?
More like a Cheech and Chong movie. Two dudes fly over the Arctic in an airplane and one looks out the window.
"Mey man, look at all that oil!"
"That's water, you jackass!"
"No no, man, that's oil. I can see the sheen, man!"
"How many times do I have to tell you, the oil is underground."
"I don't care, man, I can see the oil. There is a billion, gazillion gallons of oil out there, man. There is enough oil out there to last for centuries ... (sigh)."
"This is supposed to be a scientific estimate. I can't tell the Geologic Survey that there are a 'billion-gazillion' barrels of oil ... "
"Gallons, man, gallons. Not barrels, gallons!"
"What's that number on the back of that piece of paper?"
"It's a phone number of that girl I met at the bar last night."
"Well, double it and that will be our 'official estimate'."
"Hey man! I can see Russia from here ..."