U.S. Tops in Energy Resources

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The United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.

As shown in the charts below, the U.S. has 1,321 billion barrels of oil (or barrels of oil equivalent for other sources of energy) when combining its recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves.

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we have enough to last till rapture or until alternative sources come fully online. matter a fact we have enough surplus to sell back to OPEC and the world and make a good profit !!! but the dums and envirowacks say not one drop. only in America. its politics baby
 
The United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.

As shown in the charts below, the U.S. has 1,321 billion barrels of oil (or barrels of oil equivalent for other sources of energy) when combining its recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves.

[URL="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34233"]source[/URL]

we have enough to last till rapture or until alternative sources come fully online. matter a fact we have enough surplus to sell back to OPEC and the world and make a good profit !!! but the dums and envirowacks say not one drop. only in America. its politics baby
Fuckin' America, hogging all the natural resources again. Damn us.
 
The United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service.

As shown in the charts below, the U.S. has 1,321 billion barrels of oil (or barrels of oil equivalent for other sources of energy) when combining its recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves.

[URL="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34233"]source[/URL]

we have enough to last till rapture or until alternative sources come fully online. matter a fact we have enough surplus to sell back to OPEC and the world and make a good profit !!! but the dums and envirowacks say not one drop. only in America. its politics baby

I agree with you 100%

I also look at things as to the profit motive. I like to take the profit angle with everything that happens so in this case is there a profit motive to use Saudi Oil and there is, at any price per barrel, a company like the old Rockerfeller Standard and Oil which is Exxon mobil will always make 10 times the profit on the "light sweet crude" of the middle east. Our oil is "heavy crude".

The profit is just higher, the refining costs are less. If the oil companies could make a bigger profit with our oil they would.
 
No need for oil or coal exploration or development. This nation has enough energy potential in Solar, Wind, and Geothermal to supply all of our energy needs.

A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables: Scientific American


Key Concepts
Supplies of wind and solar energy on accessible land dwarf the energy consumed by people around the globe. The authors’ plan calls for 3.8 million large wind turbines, 90,000 solar plants, and numerous geothermal, tidal and rooftop photovoltaic installations worldwide. The cost of generating and transmitting power would be less than the projected cost per kilowatt-hour for fossil-fuel and nuclear power.
 
and just how many years till these systems come online and take over ??? and how long will it take to replace billions of gas cars on the roads??? drill our brains out !!!! can you feature gas at under a buck ???? it can happen that easy. but the oils co's ??? ha no way in hell
 
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No need for oil or coal exploration or development. This nation has enough energy potential in Solar, Wind, and Geothermal to supply all of our energy needs.

A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables: Scientific American


Key Concepts
Supplies of wind and solar energy on accessible land dwarf the energy consumed by people around the globe. The authors’ plan calls for 3.8 million large wind turbines, 90,000 solar plants, and numerous geothermal, tidal and rooftop photovoltaic installations worldwide. The cost of generating and transmitting power would be less than the projected cost per kilowatt-hour for fossil-fuel and nuclear power.

NIMBY seems to be an issue though.
 
and just how many years till these systems come online and take over ??? and how long will it take to replace billions of gas cars on the roads??? drill our brains out !!!! can you feature gas at under a buck ???? it can happen that easy. but the oils co's ??? ha no way in hell

Gasoline was under $1 in 1999.

We're already trying to export "green" jobs:

U.S. Should Bar Funds for China-Backed Wind Farm, Schumer Says

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration should bar a $1.5 billion wind-farm project in Texas from receiving U.S. government stimulus funds because most of the power turbines would be made in China, Senator Charles Schumer said.

“The idea that stimulus funds would be used to create jobs overseas is quite troubling,” Schumer, a New York Democrat, wrote in a draft of a letter he said yesterday he would send to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “I urge you to reject any request for stimulus money unless the high-value components, including the wind turbines, are manufactured in the United States.”
 
and just how many years till these systems come online and take over ??? and how long will it take to replace billions of gas cars on the roads??? drill our brains out !!!! can you feature gas at under a buck ???? it can happen that easy. but the oils co's ??? ha no way in hell

It takes many years to build a nuclear plant. A couple of years to build a dirty coal fired plant. A week to put up a windmill. Probably a year for a geothermal plant. Days to install solar panels on a commercial roof.

Cars last less time than pickups and big vans. And the pickups and big vans are emminently suitable to retrofit to batteries or capacitors.
 
and just how many years till these systems come online and take over ??? and how long will it take to replace billions of gas cars on the roads??? drill our brains out !!!! can you feature gas at under a buck ???? it can happen that easy. but the oils co's ??? ha no way in hell

Gasoline was under $1 in 1999.

We're already trying to export "green" jobs:

U.S. Should Bar Funds for China-Backed Wind Farm, Schumer Says

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration should bar a $1.5 billion wind-farm project in Texas from receiving U.S. government stimulus funds because most of the power turbines would be made in China, Senator Charles Schumer said.

“The idea that stimulus funds would be used to create jobs overseas is quite troubling,” Schumer, a New York Democrat, wrote in a draft of a letter he said yesterday he would send to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “I urge you to reject any request for stimulus money unless the high-value components, including the wind turbines, are manufactured in the United States.”

Excellent point. One problem, why are not our investment companies investing like this in wind power? It has proven to be a real profit maker here in Oregon.
 
Boone Pickens did just that. He's now sitting on a graveyard of disassembled windmills. He admits making assumptions about the industry and got burnt.

Plopping windmills hither and yon is the easy part. Hooking into the power grid and negotiating contracts is the challenge. At this point in time, anywayS.
 
Here is the breakdown of America's oil reserves.

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Most of this is in shale. We do not have the technology to pump mass amounts of oil from shale yet. It may be another 20, 30 or 40 years before we are able to do that.
 
Here is the breakdown of America's oil reserves.

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Most of this is in shale. We do not have the technology to pump mass amounts of oil from shale yet. It may be another 20, 30 or 40 years before we are able to do that.

Thanks for the link.

Click the image.

Does it prove, "It may be another 20, 30 or 40 years before we are able to do that"?
The key word is "may". Well shit, it "may" be 2 years. Obfuscation is great.
 
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Thanks for the link.

Click the image.

Does it prove, "It may be another 20, 30 or 40 years before we are able to do that"?
The key word is "may". Well shit, it "may" be 2 years. Obfuscation is great.

No it "may" not be 2 years. Ignorance is bliss.

at least 12 and possibly more years will elapse before oil shale development will reach the production growth phase. Under high growth assumptions, an oil shale production level of 1 million barrels per day is probably more than 20 years in the future, and 3 million barrels per day is probably more than 30 years into the future.

http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG414.pdf
 
Click the image.

Does it prove, "It may be another 20, 30 or 40 years before we are able to do that"?
The key word is "may". Well shit, it "may" be 2 years. Obfuscation is great.

No it "may" not be 2 years. Ignorance is bliss.

at least 12 and possibly more years will elapse before oil shale development will reach the production growth phase. Under high growth assumptions, an oil shale production level of 1 million barrels per day is probably more than 20 years in the future, and 3 million barrels per day is probably more than 30 years into the future.

http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG414.pdf

Seems subjective to me, not objective.
Of course, placing government restrictions on things (think restrictions on oil drilling in ANWAR) can make things hard to come to fruition.
 
Does it prove, "It may be another 20, 30 or 40 years before we are able to do that"?
The key word is "may". Well shit, it "may" be 2 years. Obfuscation is great.

No it "may" not be 2 years. Ignorance is bliss.

at least 12 and possibly more years will elapse before oil shale development will reach the production growth phase. Under high growth assumptions, an oil shale production level of 1 million barrels per day is probably more than 20 years in the future, and 3 million barrels per day is probably more than 30 years into the future.

http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG414.pdf

Seems subjective to me, not objective.
Of course, placing government restrictions on things (think restrictions on oil drilling in ANWAR) can make things hard to come to fruition.

It is not subjective. We've known about shale for decades. We don't have the technology to pull it out of the rocks. Period. Full-stop. The models are based on the rate of advancements off the base we know now. Maybe that will accelerate, I don't know, but based on the current rate of understanding, we're decades away.

ANWAR is the biggest red herring. I'm all for drilling on ANWAR but at best, it gets us 300k barrels per day. The idea that it is conservation that is holding us back is more right-wing nonsense. The level of ignorance staggers me when I hear people believe that we could easily tap the energy resources if it weren't for those evil liberals in Washington.

From the above link.

The largest known oil shale deposits in the world are in the Green River Formation, which covers portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming...For potentially recoverable oil shale resources, we roughly derive an upper bound of 1.1 trillion barrels of oil and a lower bound of about 500 billion barrels...the midpoint in our estimate range, 800 billion barrels, is more than triple the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Present U.S. demand for petroleum products is about 20 million barrels per day.
 
No need for oil or coal exploration or development. This nation has enough energy potential in Solar, Wind, and Geothermal to supply all of our energy needs.

A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables: Scientific American


Key Concepts
Supplies of wind and solar energy on accessible land dwarf the energy consumed by people around the globe. The authors’ plan calls for 3.8 million large wind turbines, 90,000 solar plants, and numerous geothermal, tidal and rooftop photovoltaic installations worldwide. The cost of generating and transmitting power would be less than the projected cost per kilowatt-hour for fossil-fuel and nuclear power.

Did they calculate the federal subsidies and the interest payments to China when they made these dubious claims?
 

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