What an articulate response. How can anyone argue with well researched facts like "FUCKING RETARDS". Do you wear a helmet? Probably should.

So for the low IQ mouth breathers, such as yourself, there are 2 primary reasons oil companies have continued to drill.

1. To increase their market share. Businesses want to grow.

2. Demand has increased and you can only pull so much out of a particular well. You need more wells to keep up with increasing demand.

Because the process to refill the oil fields is totally instantaneous, right? And also in line with exponential usage growth. Oil fields that took thousands of years to fill only take a week, tops, to refill.

Not only do you suffer cognitively, you lack basic reading comprehension. I said it took years to refill. I said they could over pump the wells, and had to slow the pumping down to equalize what was being produced. I also said, the research was old and caveated it with "At least at the time...".

So why don't you go do some ACTUAL research, and come back and tell us how many major oil wells have gone dry?

Here is one to get you started?

Bob Dudley [BP CEO], in his 38 years in the oil industry, has never seen anything like what happened with BP Plc’s old fields last year: They gushed more crude."

• Sauce: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/down-is-up-as-aging-oil-fields-defy-gravity-to-pump-more-crude

Oops, no that one backs what I was saying. My bad.