I, too, guessed Pennsylvania. Interesting how times change. If you go to the source govt website, you can see history for each state since 1981. Very interesting.
I live in one of the states with basically no oil...it's fascinating how even neighboring states can be so wildly disparate in their mineral resources, e.g. North and South Dakota.
As a Pennsylvanian, I've learned that Pennsylvania used to have quite a bit of oil. And while the oil industry isn't very significant anymore, Pennsylvania is still one of the largest natural gas producers in America (second behind Texas), and possibly the world.
Not sarcastic here, fracking is a wonderful technology that creates a lot of cheap energy and is a net positive effect on the environment to the extent that it replaces dirtier sources like coal!
It is choosing between pest and cholera. However, fracking has unambiguously a devasting impact on the environment: just because it keeps the oil price low and delays the end of the fossil era.
Exactly, we should rather ban oil and start using only wind and solar. Effectively reducing our energy output by 90% and returning with our life standards to the good ol' 1700s, no bother that the poor masses of the world would suffer the most. Oil is bad!
Actually, replacing all energy with only wind and solar is quite bad for the environment. Not only are the maximum efficiencies very low for both of these technologies, the batteries they require only store a little power, are made with several rare earth metals and require the digging up of billions of tons of earth in often protected areas that have continued to remain undisturbed thus far. Not only this, but solar takes up large amounts of water, further stressing water resources, and both of these kill large numbers of birds, endangering many species further. While oil does in fact cause carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere, many scientists still argue over how much of an impact this actually has, since water vapor is the most common and impactful greenhouse gas, and both carbon dioxide and methane account for relatively little compared to it.
Fracking has done a lot to reduce U.S. emissions because it has reduced the price of natural gas and made coal plants less attractive. Not only does coal create more CO2 emissions than natural gas, pollution from burning coal is responsible for thousands of deaths each year (estimates are as high as 300,000 globally). In the current situation, we are better off with fracking than without it.
No, silly. All people know it is in the municipality where the capital of Artsakh is. Either that or Cyprus is 500 feet underground where Nicosia is under a hologram facility in Adelaide.
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I live in one of the states with basically no oil...it's fascinating how even neighboring states can be so wildly disparate in their mineral resources, e.g. North and South Dakota.
Source: my brain, www.totallyarealandsecuresite.io