10 years is the time from “hey I’d like to drill oil” to getting a useful shipment of gasoline. In the mean time you have all the other stuff of figuring out where to drill, finding the pockets, drilling, pumping, laying pipes, refining, shipping, etc. Not to mention all the leases, permits, and contracts.
Now if the oil is already known to be there, bans are removed, most of the infrastructure is already available like pipe lines and warehousing....the real time is more like 18 to 24 months in some areas (Montana, North Dakota, ANWR) according to some insiders I’ve seen and heard interviewed. Five years max and that’s if they work slow.
Now don’t tell me you are buying into the lame excuses by the liberals? *rme*