Politics, geology: enhanced oil recovery

Self-tutoring about the evolving oil business: the tutor mentions enhanced oil recovery.

The following is according to my understanding.

Generally, enhanced oil recovery means injecting a gas – for instance, CO₂ – into an oil deposit to make the oil itself easier to bring to the surface. It’s done after the “easy” oil has been recovered: the oil that’s easy to bring up can be less than half the content a deposit.

Offering a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery, based on its use of CO₂, argues this: CO₂ is being interred, so removed from the atmosphere. However, a person against climate change may argue that, if the motivation for interring the carbon dioxide is to bring more petroleum to human use, it defeats the purpose.

Source:

msn.com

energy.gov