More background reading on the push to take wells deeper into the seas
and at the same time deeper into the earth--with profitability assured
by US government subsidy and 'sequestration' of much cheaper oil in
Iraq (if Iraq produced on the level of Saudi Arabia and Russia, and
most think its
Americans still don't have health care, the US military still occupies
Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan has expanded, and Obama pulled a
real bonehead move earlier this year when he announced a reversal--a
total boneheaded flipflop on offshore drilling--and gave the likes of
T. Boone Pickens