Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/12/00 8:10:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> retroman@turbont.net writes:
>
> << Except that oil prices are not due to the actual market demand or actual
> ability
> to supply, but by restraint of supply by a monopolistic syndicate, so it is
> false evidence to use to reflect any trend in increase in cost due to third
> world development. Inflation of prices in general has on a decade by decade
> average, have always trended higher than inflation in energy prices,
> something
> which Krugman ignores. >>
> I wonder if Dr. Thomas Gold's theory (since he did the exploration in Sweden
> 10 years ago, its now a theory) about regenerating oil fields, in which oil
> percolates up from deep inside the Earth's crust will impact supply and
> demand? See last month's Wired for the interview.
It seems to be a rather slow percolation, as a wildcatter friend of mine who
ropens abandoned wells in the Texas/Louisiana area sees only a few hundred
barrels per day per well for a few years (on wells that have been capped for
30-40 years). His costs are around $10-12 per barrel, so it is profitable when
he does hit one that has a decent flow (about a 50-50 chance so far), but it is
not a high volume business, so it will never be a large percentage of the
supply...
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