Significant oil find at Gatwick Airport.

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Postman Pat

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32229203

With the economic benefits this will bring, is this the final piece in the jigsaw for Sussex to declare independence from the rest of the U.K.?

 

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Raleigh Chopper

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Crawley. The English Dallas.

100 billion barrels of oil near Gatwick Airport.
So far the North Sea has produced 45 billion.
Will this discovery make Crawley the richest town in the country?
Will there be gushers all around the local countryside?
Will we be self sufficient in oil?
Will Petrol be 2p a litre and income tax almost zero?
Or will the oil companies cream it off the top and the government make huge revenues while the public see little change for themselves?
Is there a family called Ewing living in Crawley?
What with this and fracking we could be like Saudi Arabia in a few years, couldn't we?

 

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For others, this is the related news article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32229203

 

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From the title I sas hoping this was a remake of the to series

 

Return of the Rev

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Postman Pat said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32229203

With the economic benefits this will bring, is this the final piece in the jigsaw for Sussex to declare independence from the rest of the U.K.?

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I think surrey might have something to say,thats where they are drilling!

 

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So the next question, who is going to be extracting it? are profits generated which are going to billions, is this going to go back in to our economy in the way of jobs, or is it going to be leaving our economy completely.

Will be interesting to see what happens here.

 

AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit

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Ask Obama about the Keystone Pipeline from North Dakota.

Ask Americans and Canadians about the transportation of oil in out-of-date railroad cars that cause huge explosions when those oil filled out-of-date rail cars rumble next to your home.

http://stories.weather.com/boom

 

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How much rent do you get for having a nodding donkey in your garden?

 

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Fungus

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More pollution and CO2.

 

RandyWanger

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Or will the oil companies cream it off the top and the government make huge revenues while the public see little change for themselves?

Very much this.

 

Notters

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The planes operating from Gatwick airport use the same amount of fuel as all of the cars in the UK put together. Not relevant to this discussion perhaps but interesting.

 

skipper734

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The Weald is floating on a lake of Oil, who'd have thunk it? Eco lefties will be upset.

Independence Now!

 

JJ McClure

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Crawley. The English Dallas.

It'll be more like the Beverly Hillbillies. Every chav in a shellsuit will be digging up their back garden looking for oil.

 

AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit

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North Dakota's Bakken Oil Field

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29173/6-questions-about-north-dakotas-oil-boom

 

beorhthelm

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Oxy McFloppie-Tish said:

More pollution and CO2.

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or less, if you don't have to ship it from middle east or Venezula.

 

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RandyWanger said:

Or will the oil companies cream it off the top and the government make huge revenues while the public see little change for themselves?

Very much this.

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But what would the locals spend it on ?

 

KZNSeagull

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There are already 13 oil producing sites in the Weald, some 30 years old.

They should just turn Crawley into one big oil field. I doubt anyone will miss it.

 

El Presidente

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drew said:

How much rent do you get for having a nodding donkey in your garden?

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Last time I had one of those it cost me two Bacardi Breezers and a bag of chips.

 

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RandyWanger said:

Or will the oil companies cream it off the top and the government make huge revenues while the public see little change for themselves?

Very much this.

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It's probably already been decided, your getting nothing.

 

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We'll be able to afford to invade Lesser Sussex and enclave Bexhill, for those refusing to live under the yoke of oppression from their Better Sussex overlords.



Why are their 2 or 3 'nodding donkeys' by Pulborough rugby club?
Is that oil 'rich' as well?