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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: xkcd: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>The production of crude oil in the USA is probably going to drop in 2026 
>due to reduced capital investment in oil wells (we are in a oil bust 
>again since 2009).

When I was a kid, heating oil and heavy oil were byproducts of gasoline
manufacture, and when gasoline sales went up, heating oil prices went 
down.  In the modern age when they have cheap cracking is that still the
case?

I can say that commodity lubricating oils are way more pure than they
were when I was a kid.  Light machine oil used to have black gunk at the
bottom of the can and smelled like gas.  Now it has no deposit and no
smell.

>The USA natural gas production will meet of all the USA's needs easily 
>for the next 100 to 200 years as we are flaring about 1/3rd of our 
>natural gas right now due to lack of customers and/or storage.  Most of 
>the 100% natural gas wells are closed in at this time.

Storage is a big deal.  And transport.
--scott
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