this story give you hope that a number of sources will soon change how we run America - nuke, clean coal, gas and ANWAR.
>1 million barrels a day is the present out put of the Gulf
>of Mexico - according to a story about what happens with a
>shut down of the LA refiners. This is 25% of our daily
>use, so this one area added to the gulf would give up 50% >and Texas still provides more than the gulf.
>this story give you hope that a number of sources will
>soon change how we run America - nuke, clean coal, gas and
>ANWAR.
Our daily use is 20.4 million barrels a day in this country (average daily usage for the 1st 10 monthes of 2004)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/usa.html#oil
If you can come up with a more reputable source than the Department of Energy let me know and post it. The current output from the Gulf of Mexico is 1.6 million barrels a day, and onshore Texas is 1.1 million barrels a day.
1 to 2 million barrels a day would amount to 5-10% of daily usage no more and probably less as demand gradually increases. Shell achieved and impressive 5 barrel a day average (1500 barrels over the course of a year). If they can multiply what they did by 10,000 or 100,000 great. If not its an interesting but in the end not very significant process.