Die-in and protest at the Royal Bank of Canada RBC Centre Branch in London, Ontario, Canada.
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The Tar Sands “Gigaproject” is the largest industrial project in human history and likely also the most destructive. The tar sands mining procedure releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production and is slated to become the single largest industrial contributor in North America to Climate Change.
The tar sands are already slated to be the cause of up to the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet behind the Amazon Rainforest Basin. Currently approved projects will see 3 million barrels of tar sands mock crude produced daily by 2018; for each barrel of oil up to as high as five barrels of water are used.
Since 2007 RBC Royal Bank Canada – has backed more than $16.9 billion (USD) in loans to companies operating in the tar sands—more than any other bank. Expansion of the tar sands is trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples, destroying globally significant ecosystems and significantly increasing Canadas carbon emissions.
Human health in many communities has seriously taken a turn for the worse with many causes alleged to be from tar sands production. Tar sands production has led to many serious social issues throughout Alberta, from housing crises to the vast expansion of temporary foreign worker programs that racialize and exploit so-called non-citizens. Infrastructure from pipelines to refineries to super tanker oil traffic on the seas crosses the continent in all directions to all three major oceans and the Gulf of Mexico.
The mock oil produced primarily is consumed in the United States and helps to subsidize continued wars of aggression against other oil producing nations such as Iraq, Venezuela and Iran.
Royal Bank of Canada
The Royal Bank of Canada (Banque Royale du Canada in French) is Canada’s largest company.[1] It has over 1,400 branches across Canada, over 70,000 full-and part-time employees worldwide, and offices in over 34 countries.
SNAPSHOT:
Number of employees worldwide: 60,858
Chief executive officer: Gordon Nixon
Website: http://www.rbc.com/
Global Fortune 500 rank: 211
Total revenue: 20.6 billion
Find out more and take action:
http://oilsandstruth.org/
http://www.ienearth.org/nativeenergy….
http://ran.org/campaigns/freedom_from…
http://climatefriendlybanking.org/
http://www.corpwatch.org
Our objective is to save humanity and not just half of humanity. We are here to save mother earth. Our objective is to reduce climate change to [under] 1°C. [above this] many islands will disappear and Africa will suffer a holocaust. The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system. If we want to save the earth then we must end that economic model. Capitalism wants to address climate change with carbon markets. We denounce those markets and the countries which [promote them]. It’s time to stop making money from the disgrace that they have perpetrated.”
- Evo Morales, December 16th, 2010, Copenhagen Climate Summit
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The USGS estimate of 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in the Bakken Formation, and a mean estimate of 3.65 billion barrels, is an estimate of what industry may recover if the entire area of prospective Bakken Formation is produced using current technology. The current USGS mean estimate is a 25-fold increase over the previous USGS estimate, in 1995, of 151 million barrels of undiscovered technically recoverable oil in the Bakken Formation. As of August 2009, cumulative oil production from the Bakken Formation totaled about 190 million barrels (up from 164 million barrels in March 2009, 149 million barrels in December 2008 and 135 million barrels in September 2008).
For additional information go to http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/oilgas/noga/ (choose Williston/Bakken in the interactive map to see all available documents).
Unless it will be truly detrimental to the environment I can’t see why we aren’t extracting more. It has to go beyond the spotted owl, someone has an evil plan and I’d like to know what it is.
Good answer Katmandu, doesn’t anyone else have a thought about this?
Would Nationalizing the oil fields, can we do that and hire companies to extract it still be considered a nationilized industry? Good luck getting that past the free market crowd though.
But wouldn’t it be wonderfull if all Americans could receive dividends off the revenues? It would be like everyone won the lottery. I’ll be at the beach. Think I’ll get a camel.
Our oil reserves are not nationalized, so the oil would go to auction at the world oil market.
It doesn’t help that Nixon canceled the 1944 Bretton Woods economic agreement and Bill Clinton abolished the Glass Steagall Act which had required a responsible banking structure; commercial banks had to be separate from investment banks and were not allowed to gamble with deposits, pension funds etc. Hundreds of trillions of imagined dollars, more than what the world’s economy and capital infrastructure are worth, are on the books of a few banks now essentially as an expression of a modern feudal status. This feudal class of bank executives that managed to secure about half of total bail out funds for personal benefits, in order to distinguish itself requires impoverished and debt enslaved masses. Free trade in the banking sector represents 21. century Letters of Marque to the banks, royal authority for robbery. The result has been a focus shift, a harmful influence on the economy for many years now. There is a neglect of investment into the economy, infrastructure and into sustainable productivity by banks and in extension by governments. Real money and monopoly money don’t mix, that is one problem of the bail out heist which in the meantime has swollen 12 fold from 700 billions to 8.5 trillions in the US alone. US government debt is doubling as we speak, in a vital sense tying the hands of the Obama administration to fix anything as economist Michael Hudson but also the writer, researcher and former investment banker Nomi Prins point out. In combination with the industrial stuff of life, oil, diminishing, a perfect, global storm of destruction has broken loose.
Business operations are complicated and cant just come and go with the moody speed of an extreme crude price volatility; even a lot of oxygen will not do much for a dead patient. The shrinking flow of crude oil had stopped the flow of inflated capital.
Sounds like a straightforward reason why Wall Street was caught with their pants down right after the Peak Oil generated crude oil prize shock and not some other time?
The all important sweet, light crude comes from 400 big, tired fields producing 75% of all oil and representing only 1% of all fields and they are on line since the 70s and from before. After all, the peak of new oil field discovery was in the year JFK was assassinated, 1963, a very long time ago. Between then and now there lies a long, steep and hardened slope of decline for total new oil discoveries. There is no recovery for a national oil economy and not for a global oil economy. Economic activity will feel in a short coupled way the boa constrictor like tightening grip of a more and more shrinking oil production the instant it wants to take a breath. Then the crude prize will spike way up and throttle economic activity.
Crucial time was wasted since Reaganomics killed an already fledgling green energy conversion in the early 80s which we are reminded to by Bushs and Harpers free trade platitudes at the 2008 Doha trade talks and now at the APEC meeting in Lima; At this point Harpers globalization talk scares investors, Reagan had more listeners for his fantasy ideas. Lets all give our heads a shake, walk up a mountain, or do whatever it takes to think it over.
A good time to remember the journalist Edward R. Murrow who fought ideologues and censorship in the McCarthy era and who was known for his trade mark closing line on the CBS evening news casts: Good Night and Good Luck.
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I hear every uneducated person on here say that we can’t drill because it will take 10 years to see any oil. Which is a valid point to a certain extent. It will take between 6-10 years to see that oil but this was the same defense Clinton used over 10 years ago when he vetoed drilling in ANWR. The area that they want to drill in ANWR is .1% of the total refuge. Do these democrats just refuse to see long term?
There other argument is that we need alternative fuel sources. Great, sounds good. Except that they are years away from being efficient and readily available. Even Honda’s hydrogen car won’t see mass production for at least 5 years.
Why don’t we drill and research alternative fuel?
Thanks for proving my point Ruby. It will also take years for hydrogen filling stations. Whereas gas stations are readily available.
We have been trying to come up with affordable alternative fuels for the last 40 years and have been unsuccessful.
If we are willing to pay the equivalent of $10.00 per gallon we can have alternative fuels.
We cannot even afford $4.00 gasoline. We certainly cannot afford the alternative fuels that are available today at $10.00 per gallon.
If we have not been able to come up with affordable alternative fuels iin the last 40 years it is not likely that we will be able to come up with affordable alternative fuels i the next 10 years.
People say that hydrogen is the solution, however curently hydrogen is made from natural gas, which comes from oil wells.
It is more efficient to use the natural gas directly in a vehicle that to use the natural gas to create hydrogen to operate a vehicle.
Hydrogen can also be created electrolytically from water, however that requires a great deal of electricity.
The equipment that creates hydrogen electrolytically from water operates at approximately 70% efficiency.
You lose approximately 30% of the energy just generating the hydrogen from water electrolytically.
The battery of an electric car or plug in hybrid stores electrical energy much more efficiently and delivers that electrical energy much more efficiently than generating hydrogen electrolytically.
It takes approximately 50 kilowatt hours of electricity to generate an amount of electricity that has the energy content of one gallon of gasoline.
Most of our electricity is generated using coal or natural gas. The cost of generating that electricity is approximately 10 cents per kilowatt hour.
At 10 cents per kilowatt hour it costs $5.00 to generate an amount of hydrogen with an energy content equal to one gallon of gasoline.
Hydrogen currently is not a cost effective solution to our energy crisis. Since it takes fossil fuels to generate the electricity there is no reduction in greenhouse gases.
The so called environmentalists say that it will take 10 years before we see any oil from ANWR. They use that as one of their reasons why we should not drill there.
The so called environmentalists said the same thing over 10 years ago about drilling in ANWR and gave that as one of the reasons why we should not drill there.
If we had ignored the environmentalists 10 years ago and drilled in ANWR anyway, that oil from ANWR would be coming on the market now, just when we need it.
We must ignore the environmentalists and go ahead and start opening up the land that has been off limits to oil drilling so that we can provide affordable gasoline to the working people of the United States who must dribve their cars to and from work, take the children to school and feed and clothe their families.
TIGER (special report) *dedicated to those guards who put their life on the line for low pay to protect the tiger and its habitat.
Tiger numbers in the wild:
(based on the most recent and factual data I could find)
BENGAL TIGER= 1,300-2,000 (S.Asia: India) Low numbers due to loss of habitat with population boom, need for agriculture, illegal hunting, and poor protection.
AMUR/ SIBERIAN TIGER= 400-500 (E. Asia: Russia, N.E. China) Low numbers due to illegal hunting in vast unprotected habitat as well legal hunting killing off their natural prey. Logging companies (some mafia influenced, clearing forest)
INDOCHINESE TIGER= 700-1,300 (S.E. Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia) Low numbers due to fragmented habitat, devastation of forest for palm oil production, illegal hunting and poor protection.
SUMATRAN TIGER= 250-300 (W. Indonesia: Sumatra) Low numbers due to loss of habitat, illegal hunting and poor protection.
MALAYAN TIGER= 400-600 (S.E. Asia: Malaysia, Thailand) *decleared a separate subspecies from the Indochinese tiger in 2004. Low numbers due to loss of habitat from logging and agriculture.
SOUTH CHINA TIGER= 10? (S.China) declared extinct in 2003. (One photo recently taken is being called a hoax.) Low numbers due to China’s waiting until 1977 to outlaw hunting. No protection from illegal hunting. Loss of habitat.
(a captive born male S. China tiger was born 11-23-07 in Africa)
Total Tiger captive numbers 10,000 +/- in various situations. (many are Amur/Bengal mixed)
WHAT I THINK WILL SAVE THE TIGER:
Letting U.S. corporations know that we want to be aware where our resources like Palm Oil come from. Our government letting China know we are unhappy with their wildlife policies (namely tiger parts used in traditional medicine) and poor protection of their endangered animals.
Better protection for the tigers in their native habitats and their prey species by properly arming and funding the anti-poaching units, and better regulations allowing them to search for illegal trade. Less corrupt local governments to allow the people a chance at an economy that doesn’t rely on illegal trade or over farming the land.
More funding being sent over, possibly a tiger tax on all that own/exhibit tigers to go towards their conservation.
For more info:
www.tigrisfoundation.nl
www.iucn.org
www.wwf.org
www.cawtglobal.org
www.wpsi-india.org
www.tigertrust.info
www.defenders.org
www.savethetigerfund.org
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I love the idea of fuel cell vehicles, but gas stations will want the government to pay for conversions. Why haven’t the wheels been turning on this already. It is going to happen. The arab world is total control of our economy because of our dependance on foreign oil. American owned oil companies could help by adding refineries, but they would prefer that the government build for them (welfare for the billionares). Why don’t OUR elected officials cut there nuts off & start funding hydrogen production. Exxon & the Saudi’s can pound sand up each others arses while they wait for somebody to buy their product.
many years before its commonly available. no incentive for oil companies to make the shift when there are still years of obscene profits ahead
Oil has become an important part of the modern life. That’s why I chose to do my summer assignment on oil. I encountered my summer assignment topic, and found that there has been a conflict in the Nigerian Delta over oil. This conflict has been caused Ijaws and other tribes fighting “with each other and the federal government.” (_____________________) I chose this as my project because this conflict has not been in the news often like other conflicts such as the conflict with Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, North Korea, and Columbia. This conflict doesn’t seem to bring the media’s attention, but I think the United States should keep a closer eye on Nigeria since it is “America’s fifth largest supplier.”(____________) I chose this project to learn more on this conflict since oil is an important resource in America and through my research felt angered at the Nigerian government for their actions toward the people of Nigeria.
Nigeria is in danger of being corrupt. When oil is discovered in a country that is “poor, (and) fighting over scraps,” we would think it would be the end of poverty, but not so with Nigeria. Nigeria “pulls in $14 billion a year in oil revenue.” I blame the Nigerian government for not putting an end to poverty. Nigeria’s new wealth has been taken by “politicians, in particular by the country’s military, brought to power in the country’s late 1960s civil war,” who have been robbing the country’s finance ever since. There is no reason that the people of Nigeria should be poor, because the oil has been found on their land and belongs to the people of Nigeria.
The Ijaws used to be a “easygoing minority tribes, earning their living with other tribes by fishing in canoes harbored in the board delta of the Nigerian River,” but that was forty years ago. Most of the country’s production comes from the Nigerian Delta which is now causing violent outbursts. The Ijaws are now destroying pipelines, setting fire to pipelines, protesting, selling oil they steal from pipelines and even kidnapping people. The country is in total chaos. Crime and Violence has caused a “20 percent drop in Nigeria’s oil production” which meant “a shortfall of 455,000 barrels daily.” They have even stepped up their attacks on foreign oil. Even Shell announced an evacuation in February of 2006 to evacuate “an oil platform off its Atlantic coast as a precaution, shutting an additional 115,000 barrels a day.” In January, “militants held four men- from the United States, Britain, Bulgaria, and Honduras for 19 days before releasing them unharmed.” Tribes like the Ijaws, that were once peaceful are now armed and have been fighting for years claiming to be fighting “for better distribution of the country’s wealth.” I was shocked when I found out that even militants who claim to be fighting and representing the people of Nigeria have actually “evolved into criminal gangs, adept at stealing huge amounts of oil to sell on black markets, the proceeds of which are used to buy ever more sophisticated weapons.”
Even though the United States is not involved in the conflict, this conflict does affect the United States. Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil “to the United States, after Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, and Saudi Arabia.” Almost half of Nigeria’s oil is sent to the United States. Nigerian oil is prized by refiners because “it is of a light, sweet variety that is easier and cheaper to refine that the thicker and sulfur-rich kind that comes from the Middle East and Venezuela.” Nigeria determines the price of oil in the United States. The United should keep a closer eye on Nigeria if they want to oil prices in America to go down. Nigeria has played an important role Africa and “is crucial to all of West Africa, having provided the military troops and negotiating forums to quell civil war and related violence in neighboring countries. “ Nigeria has also helped on fighting terrorism by trying to “monitor and defuse an encroaching fundamentalism among its own Muslims.” Several American companies haves stakes in Nigeria such as “Mobil, Chevron Texaco and Halliburton.” In my opinion the United States is not doing anything to stop oil from rising. I believe the United States should be more involved with the conflict in Nigeria.
It reads a little stiff but aside from that its pretty good, you should get a decent grade.
If you want to relax the tone a little bit write it like you were writing to a friend.
Maybe start out by saying somethng about the high cost of gas and why this conflict also plays a factor in it.
"Are the gas prices making you want to exchange your car for a bicycle? Do you know why the gas prices seem to jump from $2.75 one hour and then up to $3.00 at the same station? Is it just price wars or is there more to it than that?
There’s a war going on over seas. I am not talking about the one that we are always hearing about in the news, Lebanon and Iraq.. I am talking about the conflicts going on in the Nigerian Delta. This little known part of the world is our nations fifth largest supplier of oil.."
Anyway, thats just an idea of an approach you might want to take. Feel free to use any or all of it or skip it and keep the essay the way you have it. Good luck to you!!
Be sure to proof read your spelling before you print your paper out! Some times our letters get changed around and we don’t see it til its too late!
Die-in and protest at the Royal Bank of Canada RBC Centre Branch in London, Ontario, Canada.
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The Tar Sands “Gigaproject” is the largest industrial project in human history and likely also the most destructive. The tar sands mining procedure releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production and is slated to become the single largest industrial contributor in North America to Climate Change.
The tar sands are already slated to be the cause of up to the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet behind the Amazon Rainforest Basin. Currently approved projects will see 3 million barrels of tar sands mock crude produced daily by 2018; for each barrel of oil up to as high as five barrels of water are used.
Since 2007 RBC Royal Bank Canada – has backed more than $16.9 billion (USD) in loans to companies operating in the tar sands—more than any other bank. Expansion of the tar sands is trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples, destroying globally significant ecosystems and significantly increasing Canadas carbon emissions.
Human health in many communities has seriously taken a turn for the worse with many causes alleged to be from tar sands production. Tar sands production has led to many serious social issues throughout Alberta, from housing crises to the vast expansion of temporary foreign worker programs that racialize and exploit so-called non-citizens. Infrastructure from pipelines to refineries to super tanker oil traffic on the seas crosses the continent in all directions to all three major oceans and the Gulf of Mexico.
The mock oil produced primarily is consumed in the United States and helps to subsidize continued wars of aggression against other oil producing nations such as Iraq, Venezuela and Iran.
Royal Bank of Canada
The Royal Bank of Canada (Banque Royale du Canada in French) is Canada’s largest company.[1] It has over 1,400 branches across Canada, over 70,000 full-and part-time employees worldwide, and offices in over 34 countries.
SNAPSHOT:
Number of employees worldwide: 60,858
Chief executive officer: Gordon Nixon
Website: http://www.rbc.com/
Global Fortune 500 rank: 211
Total revenue: 20.6 billion
Find out more and take action:
http://oilsandstruth.org/
http://www.ienearth.org/nativeenergy.html
http://ran.org/campaigns/freedom_from_oil/spotlight/tar_sands/
http://climatefriendlybanking.org/
http://www.corpwatch.org
Our objective is to save humanity and not just half of humanity. We are here to save mother earth. Our objective is to reduce climate change to [under] 1°C. [above this] many islands will disappear and Africa will suffer a holocaust. The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system. If we want to save the earth then we must end that economic model. Capitalism wants to address climate change with carbon markets. We denounce those markets and the countries which [promote them]. It’s time to stop making money from the disgrace that they have perpetrated.”
- Evo Morales, December 16th, 2010, Copenhagen Climate Summit
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Don’t ‘they’ realize that society is too well-informed to fall for that crap?
"Peak Oil is a Myth"
E. A. Blair on February 28, 2010
Excerpts:
“From the moment oil first made it into the mainstream, peak oil and the imminent depletion of fossil fuels have been vehemently predicted.
A by-no-means exhaustive list of those predictions might run something like this:
“I take this opportunity to express my opinion in the strongest terms, that the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon – one which young men will live to see come to its natural end” (1886, J.P. Lesley, state geologist of Pennsylvania).
“There is little or no chance for more oil in California” (1886, U.S. Geological Survey).
“There is little or no chance for more oil in Kansas and Texas” (1891, U.S. Geological Survey).
“Total future production limit of 5.7 billion barrels of oil, perhaps a ten-year supply” (1914, U.S. Bureau of Mines).
“Reserves to last only thirteen years” (1939, Department of the Interior).
“Reserves to last thirteen years” (1951, Department of the Interior, Oil and Gas Division).
There comes a point, however — and we reached it long ago — when one needs to stop swallowing these scare-mongering scenarios.
The history of humankind is replete with false prognostications.
We already know where to find centuries’ worth of coal – global deposits hold 200,000 Quads. Oil shale deposits hold 10 Million Quads; heavy oils are already being extracted by brute force from the Canadian Athabasca deposits, and bioengineered bacteria could make the earth’s vast deposits of these oils economically accessible everywhere within a decade or less. Even more abundant is the energy locked up within uranium and other radioactive elements. The world’s oceans contain over 10 trillion Quads’ worth of deuterium, a fuel that we will in due course learn to unlock with nuclear fusion. And nothing very fundamentally new will be required to unlock it (Ibid).
Energy begets energy.
The more energy we use, the better we become at developing, extracting, and refining ever more.
Stopping or even slowing the use of fossil fuel would not, contrary to what you’ve been told, solve this (non-existent) fossil fuel problem: on the contrary, it would bring progress to a grinding halt; but even more than that, it would do so by shutting down the conceptual mind, which is the uniquely human method of survival.
It would blast us back to the stone age.
Which is precisely what many environmentalists, especially those of the better informed variety, want.”
http://peakoilmyth.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/peak-oil-is-a-myth/
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Good question – i’m glad someone has bought it up here. I can’t believe all the old hippies are still trying to bang out this nonsense.
You see, what they’re doing is taking an undeniable fact – oil is not infinite – and wrongly inferring from that that it will run out soon. But the one does not necessarily follow from the other. For example, imagine an ant and an Olympic size swimming pool full of water. The ant drinks water from the pool but one day hears that the water is finite, is not being replenished and will one day run out. Should he worry? Of course not.
There is plenty of oil left. The Arctic, Alaska and Siberia have billions of barrels left totally untapped at the moment. More is being discovered around the Falkland Islands and Africa has the potential for vast amounts as yet undiscovered.
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So peak oil, like most environmentalist scares is a Potemkin village from start to finish
saudi arabia has 260 billion oil reserve which is worth us$ 26 trillion dollars?
SAUDI ARABIA HAS 260,000,000,000 BARREL OF OIL RESERVE UNDERGROUND.
THESE OIL IS WORTH ABOUT US$ 26 TRILLION IF FIX ITTO US$100 PER BARREL.
THIS OIL IS GOING TO FINISH WITHIN 10 TO 50 YEARS?
US GOVERNMENT IS WILLING TO GIVE US$ 300 MILLION DOLLARS TO WHO EVER CAN PRODUCE A BATTERY THAT CAN LAST MUCH LONGER THEN CURRENT BATTERY WHICH HAS TO BE RECHARGE EVERY DAY.
THE WORLD OIL RESERVE IS ABOUT 1,137,000,000,000.
THE TOTAL VALUE IS US$ 100,137,000,000,000 OR US$ 100 TRILLION DOLLARS PRECISELY.
I STILL THINK THAT LITTLE ATOMIC REACTOR IS THE ANSWER TO OIL PROBLEM.
SO IT LOOK LIKE WESTING ELECTRIC COMPANY WILL BE THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THIS WORLD IF IT CAN SUPPLY ALL THE ENERGY NEED OF ALL NATIONS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/westin…
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt…
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Summary of Reserve Data as of 2007 Country Reserves 1 Production 2 Reserve life 3
109 bbl 109 m3 106 bbl/d 103 m3/d years
Saudi Arabia 260 41 8.8 1,400 81
Canada 179 28.5 2.7 430 182
Iran 136 21.6 3.9 620 74
Iraq 115 18.3 3.7 590 101
Kuwait 99 15.7 2.5 400 108
United Arab Emirates 97 15.4 2.5 400 107
Venezuela 80 13 2.4 380 91
Russia 60 9.5 9.5 1,510 17
Libya 41.5 6.60 1.8 290 63
Nigeria 36.2 5.76 2.3 370 43
United States 21 3.3 4.9 780 12
Mexico 12 1.9 3.2 510 10
The United States has more oil in reserves than Saudi Arabia.
If only some members of Congress – one particular party -would allow access to the oil – but no, their false environmental logic keeps the nation dependent on foreign supply. Wonder why?