America's oil production last year (5.1 million barrels/day) is far below America's oil production in 1970 (9.6 million barrels/day). Even if we drill in ANWR, America's oil prouduction will barely rise above 6 million barrels/day.
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America's oil production last year (5.1 million barrels/day) is far below America's oil production in 1970 (9.6 million barrels/day). Even if we drill in ANWR, America's oil prouduction will barely rise above 6 million barrels/day.
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not too surprising.
We need to develop an energy policy so we aren't beggers for oil.
potatoes?
I like potatoes but I don't think we could get much energy out of them unless getting drunk of potato vodka gives people super energy.
1. We need to conseve more energy.
2. Develop renewable energy
3. Use a standard model nuclear energy plants
4. Maybe look at liquid coal and see if it could be used with fewer air pollution problems than how we burn coal today.
Instead of "conserving" energy, what we really need to do is to continue to become more energy efficient.
You should ask someone Irish about depending on potatoes.
Maybe a semantic issue but I consider using less energy by better designed products or using less energy because of lifestyle to be conserving energy.
I did not know that.
Food products should be used to feed people, we need to find other things to get energy from.
It is semantics, but once you buy a hybrid, bicycle to work a couple of days a week, and use CF bulbs, you'll reach a new baseline and will no longer be conserving.
Conserving is what we ought to do, always looking for ways to reduce our individual need for energy. It means turning off a light you normally leave on, adjusting your thermostat, etc. Unfortunately, everybody's got to do it or it's all in vain.
did you know? wrote:America's oil production last year (5.1 million barrels/day) is far below America's oil production in 1970 (9.6 million barrels/day). Even if we drill in ANWR, America's oil prouduction will barely rise above 6 million barrels/day.
There's more than plenty of domestic oil for many decades, wheather in AK or anyplace else in the US including off the coasts. But the government won't let the oil co. drill. It's the government that wants these high prices and are causing them.
Meanwhile Exxon sits on leases to explore in other regions of the Alaskan northern plain. Don't think that just because production is down, supplies are too. If you held the keys to a limited and valuable resource, you wouldn't just let the flood gates open, so why should they?
On a different point, driving a car is more energy efficient than riding a bike when accounting for the energy consumption to produce the extra needed calories and bring them to you.