Why, heck, we've got enough oil, gas & coal to last for a few hundred years or more! And that's before we build one more nuclear power plant!
... or shift back to coal or its derivatives.
Then let’s go get it.
DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL DRILL
A lot of that is on Russian offshore territory.
Comrade Pelosi will prevent the U.S. from drilling there.
Energy independence is made to sound like an impossible dream, but it really isn’t.
We get about 2mm bpd from the middle east. Thats it. Its about 10% of our total usage. The rest of our foreign oil comes in large part from this hemisphere, which is relatively secure. Replacing every barrel of foreign oil is tough short term, but replacing middle eastern oil is very doable on a short time line. We just have to want to do it.
If we really couldn’t drill our way out, why would it be necessary to ban drilling everywhere?
The usual cant is that drilling in “this” field is a panacea, it won’t make any difference in the price of oil. True, but irrelevant. It isn’t “this” field we’re talking about, its drilling nationwide. Opening up one field makes little difference; opening up every field makes a huge difference. Open up ANWR, thats 1/4 of what we get from the mideast. Open up offshore California, maybe 10%. Build half a dozen Sasol plants, thats maybe half. Offshore Alaska, another 1/4. A fourth here, a fourth there, pretty soon practically speaking you are energy independent.
The time line isn’t 16 years, its 5. You just have to want t do it, and then do it.
Thats not even talking about oil shale.