IN the end it may be better to use the oil from the middle east first. When it’s gone... they are back to eating sand. We have plenty of oil reserves in the continental US, offshore and in Alaska. If we use them up first...were dead.
Agreed, but if we wait to the last minute to start building the oilfields in preparation to start drilling... then we are still dead.
I could be wrong, but I have heard that if we started building the fields in Alaska tomorrow... it would be 10 years before we get anything out of the ground. (Sorry, I don’t remember the source.)
With all due respect, your comments indicate that you are going on the presumption that our petroleum “reserves” are a finite product - have you ever considered that oil could replentish over time?