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Originally Posted by lassie
Hi naturemama, If drilling here would benifit us so much how come the oil companies aren't using the leased land they know have oil now?
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How do you know how much oil is on that leased land? I mean, there could be next to nothing there at all. The government knows for a fact that the areas under the ban are significant enough to make a difference in the shortest amount of time.
At minimum, lifting the ban on offshore exploration would allow us to search for unknown oil reserves that may provide oil for hundreds of years. But without the ability to look for it we'll never know. Brazil just located an enormous field off their shores that will transform the country from a buyer to self sufficiency.
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"If this is confirmed, we will no longer be a 'medium' country, pursuing self-sufficiency and exporting a little. It will transform the nation to another level, with exporting properties like Venezuela, Arab nations and others," said Dilma Rousseff, presidential chief of staff.
For a country that went deeply into debt buying foreign oil in the 1970s and '80s, "this has changed our reality," she said.
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