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Originally Posted by Orange_Juice  The theory is sound. Your numbers, or lack of, are not though. Cutting back can save massive amounts of oil that can never be replaced. Drilling will only bring so much oil to the surface to be used. We possess 3% of the world's known reserves yet use 25% of the oil. You do the math. Where is there more room for improvement, the supply or demand side?
On top of that, with China's economy growing by 10% a year there is no way the world can even think of meeting that demand without serious conservation efforts |
Let's see here. "Cutting back can save massive amounts of oil that can be replaced.'....with even more oil if we started drilling...
There is room for both. We haven't touched a majority of the oil we have immediate access to in our own borders.