I’ve read we have more than Iran, more than Saudia Arabia plus other countries. We have oil in Alaska plus natural gas, the Bakken oil field in Montana (it’s huge, extends into Canada) Co has oil, TX has oil on-shore and off-shore plus natural gas, CA has off-shore and on shore oil, WY has oil, PA has natural gas and oil, FL has off-shore oil, LA has oil on-shore and off-shore, MS has off-shore oil, AL has oil, OK has oil, these are to name a few. These states have their infrastructure already in place to move the oil. What we need too are new refineries without the epa constantly changing the rules to keep them from operating. Remember, back when clinton was president he sold our oil reserves to Occidental Petroleum? Algore owns a goodly number of shares with that company. But, you are right, we do have 3% or more of oil reserves, but I don’t know about the 3% of the world’s oil reserve.
I think if we will stick together and get our congress critters off their high falootin’ butts and put through a pork free bill to open our oil fields plus building new refineries, we will be free of foreign oil. We will need an up and down vote. We need to stay on these “representatives of the people, to get what is needed for this country. We might even be able to help out the European countries who depend on the Caspian Sea oil line that Russia uses to transport their oil. At the moment Europe has to stay as quiet as church mice when the Russian midget rattles his saber, ‘cause they’re worried silly he might cut off their oil.
At this moment in time, I’ve heard we have enough coal to meet our country’s needs for 200 years and enough oil and natural gas to meet our needs for about 160 years.
I think we should all put our heads together and think of all the products we use that began as oil. (This computer we’re using and all of it’s components, for instance) Think of all the ways we use coal. One other way with hard coal is jewelry.
Sorry I’ve used so much band-width, there are two national areas of interest for me, our military and their care for this nation and oil, gas and coal for our country’s needs.
You just use all the bandwidth you want, dear till!