[Ahura Mazda]

U.S. oil production is 4 million barrels a day below it's peak and declining virtually every year. U.S. production is 11 million barrels a day below U.S. consumption.

According to the Department of Energy,the most optimistic estimates for ANWR production are about a million and a half barrels a day but that peak won't be reached much before 2020. More likely is a peak around a million barrels a day by 2020.

ANWR won't even get us close to our 1970 peak and at best if fills ten percent of our reliance on foreign oil.

The countries of Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have two thirds of all the oil remaining in the world. Saudi Arabia alone has one quarter. It's time to realize that we need alternatives to oil or we will be forever at the mercy of the Middle East

The DOE report on ANWR is here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/aong/pdf/sroiaf(2002)02.pdf

[Willie Green]

Thanks for the URL.

bttt

[kaktuskid]

There is...American coal converted to synthetic oil..a la SASOL