Re: Friends of George

In article <4lhm849mdh5htcjiro4cc07i0eoib6t1lv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Governor Swill <governor.swill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> This is Eddie Haskell's brain on drugs:
> >I understand your argument. You thought that the 25% and 3% figures
bore 
> >relevance, and seek any op****tunity to pooh pooh drilling no matter
what in 
> >service of your party masters. That's what got you into trouble in the
first 
> >place.
> 
> It's only irrelevant in your own mind, Iddie.  It's quite an
> interesting comparison to say that we own 3% of a thing yet consume
> 25% of it.  Are you saying those numbers are incorrect?  Do you have
> more accurate ones?
> 
He is right about just one thing.  By themselves, these stats don't 
indicate all that much.  For instance, if we had 3% of the world's 
supply of oil, but that was enough to last us 100 years, we wouldn't be 
worried about it -- at least not as something that had to be addressed 
in the short term.   But America's "proved" reserves are only 21 billion 
barrels and out "unproved" reserves are only enough to last 11 years at 
CURRENT rates of production.  So thinking we can drill more wells to 
solve the problem is nonsense, unless drilling those wells drastically 
increases our proved reserves.