Oil Under Federal Land
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To lessen part of the trillions of dollars that this country is in debt, why doesn’t the federal government sell or put into production the vast amount of oil under federally owned land?
A geologist friend of mine, in the oil business, stated that areas such as southeast of Shawnee, Oklahoma; Christmas Valley in central Oregon, and the Taft area of California, to mention a few, are thought to contain enough oil for 200 years of production. In that amount of time new discoveries of other sources of energy may make oil and its byproducts obsolete.
PAUL F. SADESKY
TEMECULA
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