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> 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]
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>>>>> "z" <gzuck...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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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 -
>>>>>> - Show quoted text -
>>>>>> 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>
>>>> [snip]
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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?
We already are.
And we don't really know how much we have in reserves either:
"Also, the energy bill Bush originally proposed contained a provision that
would have called for the Department of the Interior to inventory oil and
gas resources in the Outer Continental Shelf including areas in the Gulf.
That inventory provision was stripped from the bill in Congress after
representatives of Florida and some other coastal states objected, saying
it
would eventually lead to pressure for more drilling. The bill -- currently
stalled in the Senate -- still contains a provision giving the Interior
Department authority to grant easements, or rights-of-way, for offshore
activities that sup****t exploration, development, production,
trans****tation
or storage of oil and gas."
What the republicans should do is propose to allow more exploration and
watch the democrats go ballistic.
>>> 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.
Let us know when you have a solution to the energy problem other than
setting out to find a way it can't be done.
-Eddie Haskell
>> 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]"
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale
>>
>> -Eddie Haskell
>>
>>
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