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My friend Stew has a very thoughtful article on his blog about how to solve the oil price problem. I recommend that you read it, to put the following discussion in the proper context.
FACT: We Americans built the Trans-Alaska Pipeline over 30 years ago.
FACT: It is over 700 miles long, 4 feet in diameter.
FACT: It is 7,926 miles from America to the A-Rab oil fields through the center of the earth.
FACT: We can surely make a pipeline a mere 10 times longer now than we did then. Even with declining math scores.
So, we dig a big tunnel through the earth to underneath the A-Rab oil fields. Then we turn the pump to "Suck".
BONUS: We may only need the pump to start the flow. The oil will flow by gravity DOWN to the center of the earth faster and faster, where it will be moving with so much momentum that it will probably pump UP to the good ol' U.S. of A. by itself.
And after we get all of the oil, the A-Rab economies will be ruined, so we can use the tunnel for tourism to their countries where vacations will be very cheap.
My friend Stew has a very thoughtful article on his blog about how to solve the oil price problem. I recommend that you read it, to put the following discussion in the proper context.
FACT: We Americans built the Trans-Alaska Pipeline over 30 years ago.
FACT: It is over 700 miles long, 4 feet in diameter.
FACT: It is 7,926 miles from America to the A-Rab oil fields through the center of the earth.
FACT: We can surely make a pipeline a mere 10 times longer now than we did then. Even with declining math scores.
So, we dig a big tunnel through the earth to underneath the A-Rab oil fields. Then we turn the pump to "Suck".
BONUS: We may only need the pump to start the flow. The oil will flow by gravity DOWN to the center of the earth faster and faster, where it will be moving with so much momentum that it will probably pump UP to the good ol' U.S. of A. by itself.
And after we get all of the oil, the A-Rab economies will be ruined, so we can use the tunnel for tourism to their countries where vacations will be very cheap.
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 12:11 AM
5 Comments:
At 7:16 PM,
Unknown said…
My thing is....those Arabs have oil, but they also have a whole lot of desert. You can't grow a whole lot of food in the desert. We, on the other hand, can grow a lot of food.
The solution to the problem seems simple to me.
At 8:48 PM,
Stew Magoo said…
Yeah, what she said!
At 8:50 PM,
Stew Magoo said…
oh and thanks for the plug!
(actually I just wanted to type in duwbaiu again. wheeeeee!!!)
(I'm not popular to be spammed yet. Except from that one girl that wanted me to look at her boobies)
(which I did)
(and got beaten senseless from 'She who must be obeyed')
At 9:18 PM,
Greg Finnegan said…
Ahh, Stew, Rumpole of the Bailey! I sure miss that series.
-Greg
At 9:32 PM,
Greg Finnegan said…
Brenda, you're exactly right. The rich Arabs have imported soil, water, fertlizer and seed, and they do it every year. The CIA fact book lists the following agricultural products produced by Saudi Arabia: wheat, barley, tomatoes, melons, dates, citrus; mutton, chickens, eggs, milk. But, if we follow my plan, once we suck the oil wells dry from the bottom, they won't have money to plant their own crops, so we can sell them ours! On credit, of course, as usual.
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