Eddie Haskell wrote:
> "Major Debacle" <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Eddie Haskell wrote:
>>> "Dave Fritzinger" <dfritzin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Jul 16, 7:34 am, "Eddie Haskell" <h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> "z" <gzuck...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> On Jul 16, 12:20 pm, "Eddie Haskell" <h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ..that you hope and pray for and so refuse to allow increased
domestic
>>>>> energy production.
>>>>> -Eddie Haskell- Hide quoted text -
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>>>>> we own 3% of the world's oil. we use 25% of the world's oil. are you
>>>>> really thinking that if we could only get at all of that 3%,
>>>>> everything would work out? you guys really take bush's hatred of
>>>>> "fuzzy math" to heart.
>>>> Aside from the fact that I don't buy your numbers for a minute, the
>>>> percentage of what we own has nothing to do with the percentage we
use
>>>> that
>>>> is produced.
>>> You ought to buy his figures, though.
>>> For reserves, see: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html
>>>
>>> US oil reserves: 21.4 billion barrels
>>> Total world reserves: 1,292.6 billion barrels.
>>> US % of total reserves: 21.4/1292.6= 1.655%
>>> Gee, that is worse than what Z said.
>>>
>>> How about consumption?
>>> See:
>>>
http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2008/06/30/oil-consumption-by-country/
>>> US % of total world oil consumption: 25.9%
>>>
>>> Google is my friend, even if it isn't yours <g>
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>>> I see you are as dumb as "Z" and think that the percentage that we
have
>>> has something to do with the percentage of what we consume that is
>>> produced.
>>>
>>> -Eddie Haskell
>> Here's some numbers you can't dispute.
>
> I'm not disputing the numbers. I'm disputing their significance.
>
>> The US currently consumes some 7.5 billion barrels of oil a year.
>>
>> The Energy Information Administration of the US government claims that
the
>> US has reserves of 21 billion barrels.
>>
>> http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_pres_dcu_NUS_a.htm
>>
>> If it had to rely solely on its own reserves of 21 billion barrels, the
US
>> would run out of oil in less than three years.
>
> Why would we want to rely solely on the oil we have? So you can make
another
> nutty argument to oppose drilling?
Why do you want to burn up what's left of America's limited reserves of
oil? Do want us *completely* at the mercy of Mideast oil kingdoms?
>
>> If you think you know more than the Energy Information Administration,
>> please tell us *your* estimate of US crude oil reserves and how you
>> arrived at them.
>
> My estimate is 21 billion barrels and I got that estimate from the
Energy
> Information Administration.
>
> However:
>
> "A 2005 estimate set the total world resources of oil shale
Shale oil again? Hahaha...
Let us know when someone finds a way to squeeze the oil out of all that
shale without poisoning the groundwater, the surface water, the soil
itself and the atmosphere.
> at 411
> gigatons - enough to yield 2.8 to 3.3 trillion barrels (520 km³) of
shale
> oil.[2][3][4][5] This exceeds the world's proven conventional oil
reserves,
> estimated at 1.317 trillion barrels (209.4×109 m3), as of 1 January
> 2007.[21] The largest deposits in the world occur in the United States
in
> the Green River basin, which covers ****tions of Colorado, Utah, and
Wyoming;
> about 70% of this resource is located on federally owned or managed
> land.[22] Deposits in the United States constitute 62% of world
resources;
> together, the United States, Russia and Brazil account for 86% of the
> world's resources in terms of shale oil content.[19] These figures are
> considered tentative, as several deposits have not yet been explored or
> analyzed.[6][2]"
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale
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> -Eddie Haskell
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