Search for black gold is sweeping the country

[Sweetpea]

More than 200 communities in the English countryside may be sitting on billions of pounds of undiscovered oil, according to prospectors.
Scores of greenfield sites across southern and eastern England are being mapped for viability as world oil prices soar.
The Government has received 60 applications from 54 companies to explore 182 plots, but is keeping the details confidential because they are commercially sensitive. Villages, hamlets or new estates will learn about a prospector’s interest only if permission is sought to drill or extract oil.
The Times has learnt that rural locations from the South Downs to the Lincolnshire Wolds have been designated potential oilfields. There is a 70-mile stretch of small oil deposits in limestone and sandstone from Poole in Dorset, through Hampshire to West Sussex, and pockets in Surrey, the East Midlands and South Wales.

Search for black gold is sweeping the country - Times Online

I'm glad. We need to find it from somewhere, or an alternative fuel. I hate being beholden to Arabs.

Doubt the finds will be large enough to replace the towel heads.

[Sweetpea]

I agree, but I live in hope.

[Hekna]

I think the point here is actually that we should be looking for a completely different type of fuel. Even if we find more it will still be a limited stock and we'll be back to square one.

[easyg]

Originally Posted by von Clausewitz

Doubt the finds will be large enough to replace the towel heads.

Whatever happened to the term "********" von?

[easyg]

Sweets, how come I have been censored on the above, all I said was ********

[terrywit]

r@gheads is BWF'ed

but paki is fine.......

[terrywit]

sandnigger

[terrywit]

whoops.......

Lol