I disagree with the assertions in that article. At the rate my FE burns gas, I am going to single-handedly deplete our entire stockpile of petroleum by next year.
What alot of people don't know is that in
most states, drilling regulations have prohibited drilling wells too close together. Its called "spacing." For example, in much of SW OKlahoma, they have had to be one mile apart for over 30 years, due solely to state drilling laws created after the
oil booms of the early 1900's to minimize land destruction and industrial chaos. These are huge wells of termendous depth and flow enormous amounts of
oil and gas. Regardless of where fossil fuel comes from, long before we run out we can go back and get more of it flowing where we have already drilled. But first we gotta tell the Middle East to kiss our white Okie arses and start drilling at home.