This writer gets extremely tired of the ignorance of many reporters and the political lies about crude oil and natural gas production. Apparently the GOP big mouths want to keep it that way so their half-truths and complete lies will be believed. It can take millions of dollars and years to produce oil and gas.

            To get a barrel of oil out of the ground and to a refinery involves getting a lease to drill. Majors and wildcatters have thousands of leases they haven’t tested yet and thousands they have tested but haven’t drilled on yet. A couple of thousand have been approved last year by Biden’s agencies.

            Next the seismic tests are made to see if the rock layers below look like they may be shaped right to hold oil or gas. For the smaller companies they will require financing and the majors need to put the location into the potential’s hopper and request funding.

            If oil or gas is found then the drilling pipe must be replaced with production piping, fracked, and other down-hole work done. If the oil doesn’t flow out very fast then a pump must be brought in for long term use. Piping must be buried so oil can flow from the wells to the tanks battery. To get from the tank to the main pipeline requires additional piping or tank trucks.

            All of this requires hundreds of thousands of hard working people and they aren’t there. Canada and many other countries have the same labor shortage restricting development of new wells.             Now you know the truth. If the GOP big mouths want to help, they can get an oilfield job!