JiggsCasey
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Cool story. Now tell the forum how much oil we actually store in our SPRO.
Why? Because you don't know how to use google to find the answer for yourself? Call it 3/4's of a billion barrels, give or take.
DOE - Fossil Energy: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve Storage Sites
No, I'm fully aware of the answer. Just like all the challenges I put to YOU that you run from.
I just want him to be fully honest with the forum, himself, so he can come face-to-face with the ruse he's trying to pass off.
JiggsCasey said:Here's a hint: It's a drop in the bucket, ... and only exists for short-term government function in the event of a major disruption in supply. It's not even refined product.
Who cares? Let me put it in the language peak oil cultists understand....u take out duh oils...u put itz in duh refinery....u make duh gasolineys.
Again, it's product that is almost entirely reserved for basic government function. Not Joe Sixpack. ... No doubt, you're projecting here above, attempting to dumb it down so that YOU can rationalize it to yourself.
With 50% of US transportation fuel use discretionary, you shut that down and overall US use would be, oh, 13-14 million a day. The US, being the 3rd largest oil producer in the world, has recently increased its own production to about 5.5 million/day,
Still way doown from 9.5 million in the early 1970s, but who's counting?
so the drawdown on SPR would be about 8 million/day? So the SPR is good for a couple of months of makeup from an embargo or some other supply interruption.
Reasonable for its purpose, I suppose some sort of emergency plan could extend it some amount longer, but it's not meant as a replacement for long term shortfalls. There are other solutions to that of course.
Of course there are "long term solutions"... Unfortunately, they're ones that do not return on investment very well, and will never maintain the 4-7% annual growth that capitalism is designed to run on.
A fact you've yet to counter, in your perpetual agenda to pretend ERoEI isn't relevant.