Subject: Re: A Week in the Life of Orange Jesus
As far as establishing border security

So you approved of separating a kid from their family to send the message, "Don't come here"?

SNIP But I discovered this idea came from a man named Tom Homan. He was the head of ICE under the Trump administration, but he's been in border enforcement for decades starting as a border patrol agent and early 20s. He came up with the idea to separate families as a deterrent for migration. He first proposed it during the Obama administration. At the time, Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security Secretary said no, declined to proceed, and then the idea resurfaces again under Trump, when it's ultimately approved.SNIP

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and accessing domestic energy resources, I say hell yeah.

We're an oil exporter under Biden, but that isn't due to either Trump or Biden, it's innovation.

SNIP Similarly, Dustin Meyer, vice president of policy, economic and regulatory affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, said to understand the market now, look back to late 2019, when oil production reached its all-time peak of 12.3 million barrels a day just before the pandemic.

When gasoline prices crashed and briefly went into negative territory during the pandemic, companies worked to turn their spigots off except for their most productive wells. That created a need to squeeze more oil out of fewer wells with less resources and fewer workers.

The reduced number of active wells led to changes in how operators got oil out of the ground, Brown said.

“A lot of the normal inputs you would think about they were calling off, like certainly the amount of employment,” Brown said. “So really they were only kind of drilling in the most optimal places,” he said. (So it wasn't Drill, Drill, Drill, Mike)

But it wasn’t just a matter of choosing the right spots, he said.

The length of lateral wells, or wells that are drilled horizontally after they’re drilled vertically, began to increase dramatically during the pandemic, as well. In the Permian Basin alone, the average lateral length of horizontal wells increased to more than 10,000 feet in the first nine months of 2022, compared to less than 4,000 feet in 2010 and 9,000 in 2020, according to the EIA.

The amount of fluid that operators use to flush into frack sites has also increased, allowing more product to be extracted from the same wellhead. There have been additional technological advances in underground mapping tools, seismic measuring instruments and drillhead sensors to help guide operators to the most fruitful pockets of the subsurface.

The resulting jump in productivity per well has been dramatic, Brown said. The number of barrels of oil produced per foot of drilling has increased 200 percent since 2014, with much of that progress coming in the last three years. SNIP

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