I read an article on the United States Geological Services’ web site (the article) that just helped fuel my disgust for Eco Nazis. Were you aware that in the northern United States excluding Alaska we have vast reserves of untaped oil and natural gas yet your elected officials buying into special interest hype and lies about energy production refuse to use the vast abundance of resources at our disposal in just the lower 48 alone. The USGS’ article that was released April 10 2008 states “A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency’s 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.” And yet we pay unnecessarily high gas prices. The middle east in its entirety not just a couple of the oil producing nations that you know of have a combined estimated total of 840.4 billion Barrels “Source: U.S. Department of Energy, Oil & Gas Journal; 2007 figures.” According to the CIA fact book in January 2008 the proved oil reserves for the United States was 20.97 Billion barrels this was released before the new reserve of 3 – 4.3 Billion barrels in Bakken. The problem lies there in that we use an average of 20 million barrels a day and we have a total provable reserve of 20.97 billion barrels which if we just used that at our consumption rate our entire provable reserve would only last 2.7 Years. What we need to do is ease back not completely away from oil as our main fuel source and start tapping more of the natural gas reserves which is more than 5 trillion cu m “but our president said that we need to get away from oil completely” is a common one. OK fine we stop using petroleum completely I hope you are not to attached to things like plastic, rubbing alcohol, hand lotion, and over 1000 other products that you use on a daily basis. So I say if you want to completely stop using the resources we have and depend more for importation making us more beholden to foreign interests then I say fine you can leave the real world because you obviously don’t live there anyway.
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