Karen makes a good point- its all about the gov getting money. Conservation and economy has little or no impact. Supply is not a real issue - tax is.
Yes we consume more than the rest! But we (the US and Canada) produce many times more goods & service per barrel consumed. Gas is cheap here compared to the rest of the world and we use it wisely, we go to work and produce food, products, and the technology that drives the rest of the world. What more does one want from us? We are looking at more than four and a half trillion barrels of potentially recoverable oil. That number translates into 140 years of oil at current rates of consumption, or to put it anther way, the world has only consumed about 18 percent of its conventional oil potential. "That fact alone should discredit the argument that peak oil is imminent and put our minds at ease concerning future petrol supplies. "As we have seen, there is far more oil in the rest of the world than there is in Middle East. If the Venezuelans are right, there is enough oil in Venezuela alone to power the world for 44 years" http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922041.html http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/oil/6oilbiblio.html --- spddemun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having worked for BigOil, I can tell you that it's > the > govt.
