RE: Just pub talk ...16 Feb 2019 10:27
(UK) import lots of energy because it doesn’t produce enough of its own, reluctant to frack, prohibitive costs of the North Sea etc etc. That said, even if we did have the weald producing oil & gas, it would require £bn’s of investment and pumping millions of barrels a day, not 10,000 pd. We wouldn’t be self sufficient for at least a decade and, given the depletion rate, I doubt it would last long.