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With reports of our energy demands growing by 5% annually, I think it will take every available source known to man including solar, wind, coal, gas, methane etc. to met the demand.

I have heard that oil companies have anywhere from 33 million acres to around 65 million acres leased. The big question is how much oil is on these properties if any, and what is the cost to develop these properties. I would imagine oil companies would drill anywhere and everywhere that would be profitable especially at today's prices.

At one time in Kentucky there was a minimum distance of 660 feet between oil wells and 1,000 feet between vertical gas wells, if this is still effect which I assume it is means that one oil well would take up nearly 5 acres.

That's not entirely true. Like I have said before. There were many privately owned wells already producing that were shut down because of low demand which = low prices. Now that demand has increased they are firing those sites back up now. My point is there were and still are many sites that produce oil that are not being used. There are also millions of acres that the oil compaies leased yet never drilled.

So you tell me, what money making business would lease land they had no intention of drilling?

Bottom line is they just want more land to do with as they please so they can keep us locked into a broken system that is breaking the country.