[Pete53]

Al Gore is a complete idiot. He does not have a clue. The higher the price the more oil and gas they will have.

[usconservative]

BUMP! and mark for reading later...

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Here is an interesting article posted on FR last month.
Scientist stirs the cauldron: oil, he says, is renewable

[TomGuy]

Al Gore invented the internet...
and ice cream.

[meenie]

Google search shows we have more gas and oil in Alaska than in the Arabian peninsula. Enough for 200 years of use.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

There may be sufficient oil but, I'm afraid, New Jersey just ran out of land. Between highways, and parking lots, I heard they're moving the state capital to Pennsylvania.

[Clinton's a rapist]

Gas is now under $1/gallon. Obviously, this "War on Terrorism" was cooked up by Bush, Cheney and their Big Oil buddies to line their pockets with windfall profits. Uh...

[VOA]

The world has more oil not less
Author: By Alan Caruba

I heard Mr. Caruba on The Larry Elder Show here in Los Angeles a couple of months ago.
He was discussing his "Pocket Guide to Militant Islam", also available for sale on his website.

He seemed to be have written a pretty good review of the subject.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[cayman99]

Not true.....these numbers are inflated by counting oil that will never come out of the ground. But not to worry ,everyone reading this thread will be dead by the time it becomes a real problem.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Nice post. If we drilled and drew up the oil we have and also uncap the wells that the Clintons covered, we would have all we need.

[Roebucks]

Al Gore invented hot air. Can we burn it for fuel? Personally, I burn cheese-lactose intolerant and all...

[Mr_Magoo]

*Ping*

[Straight Vermonter]

C'mon I still remember what I learned in school in the 70's about how limited the oil supply was. The world ran out of oil in 1995.

[my trusty sig]

And this article speaks solely of conventional oil. There's a heck of a lot of non-conbventional stuff too that is presently being worked, such as the huge oil sands deposits up in Canada. There are a few hundred billion barrels worth, of which easily 10% is economically recoverable right now. That's why there's been a huge boom in Calgary/Alberta/Ft McMurray, as Suncor, Syncrude, RD, BPA, et al are investing billions there. Cost of mining/extracting the hydrocarbon has dropped to where it makes economic sense.

Australia too has some 20-30 billion barrels worth of oil shale that is beginning to be worked... and that has the nincompoops at Greenpiss busting a gut.

[DB]

The writer writes comparative numbers kind of strange...

He talks about hundreds of thousands of millions and then talks about tens of billions in the next line... The "billions" sound bigger but in fact are much smaller.

A thousand million is a billion. The way he wrote it is misleading.

The "686.4 thousand million barrels" in the Middle East is 686.4 billion barrels compared to the 16 billion barrels in Alaska. That's a pretty big difference.

I don't disagree with the premise, just the way it was written.

[RightWhale]

why are being told that we have to cut back consumption?

Our future lies in using more and more power. Cut back oil, sure, but where is the next, even better, source? Oil is so cheap and plentiful we obviously have to burn it. Nothing else even comes close, both in price and quantity availability and in harmlessness to the environment. Either that or find a mode of transportation throughout our world, --be it just around this planet or any other places in the universe we care to travel to--, that requires zero power.

[backhoe]

FYI--

The Origin of Methane (and Oil) in the Crust of the Earth
Thomas Gold
U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1570, The Future of Energy Gases, 1993

PETROLEUM RESERVES EVALUATED WITH MODERN PETROLEUM SCIENCE

Another Washington Post article here

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

To find all articles tagged or indexed using above index words

Go here: OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

and then click the topic to initiate the search! !

[welfareworker]

President Reagan talked about this very topic in his June 15, 1977 radio address, on pp.318-20 of Reagan In His Own Hand.

In 1920, we were told we'd be out of oil in 15 years.

In 1939, we had a 13 year supply.

In 1977, we had a 30 year supply.

There is undoubtably still a lot of oil out there.