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they do that with a fraction of it, but it's 5500 miles long (twice the width of the continental US for comparison) so yeah...

• dylan604 3y ago
  why is that a deterrent? just cut down into smaller size chunks just like we poke the earth full of holes to leak out the oil instead of sucking it out in one go.
  • twelve40 3y ago
    likely because it costs a ton of money? but maybe is simply hasn't occurred to anyone who lives there for the last 10 years
  • munificent 3y ago
    Love that you used "just" twice to equate something to as much effort as the building and operation of the entire petroleum industry.