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AZJonnie

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8. Sloppy work by the NY Times here

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2026, 01:25 PM

Mar 2026

56,000 feet deep is not accurate, not that this changes the overall point. That should read 5,600 feet.

This is also wrong: "start producing oil in 2029. The company projects it will deliver up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade."

That should be century, not decade.

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I checked the Times article again and they'd changed 56,000 to 5,600, so I edited the OP. Re what they highplainsdem Mar 2026 #10

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