> BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The Kern River oil field, discovered in 1899, > was revived when Chevron engineers here started injecting > high-pressured steam to pump out more oil. The field, whose production > had slumped to 10,000 barrels a day in the 1960s, now has a daily > output of 85,000 barrels.
How many barrels of oil a day does it take to heat the steam?
I don't think they would do it if the net increase in oil supplies was zero or less.
BTW, did you know that Ann Coulter called John Edwards a "faggot"?
-- Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
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