>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.
thanks for your more detailed and accurate post. As I said, I was repeating a NEWS story - my mistake.