On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:36:32 +0100, you wrote: > >MM, > >It is a hilarious and funny article, the subject is not, but the way the >Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist approaches the issue. Also this bit >about China, whose population is using a few percent of the Americans >usage, per capita. If the Chinese used as much as the Americans, per >capita, they would need all available oil production in the world, only for >them. How can they dare to go and buy so much of the Americans oil? Only >because it happens that it is located under other countries surface, is not >reason enough. Anyway, I guess that the National Association of Attorneys >General, will sort this out. LOL > >Maybe it is time to "win the hearts and minds" of the Chinese people and >liberate them. US cannot allow their irresponsible use and demands for more >oil. It is evil!!!
ROTFLMAO. > >Your assumption about American oil is right. If US only relayed on their >own known reserves, they would last for 10 years. If they are very lucky, >they will find some more and it would last around 15 years. For Natural Gas >it is 7 and 10 years. To be fair, I've heard somewhat different schools of thought on this. It is not so much to disagree as to round out the discussion. For example, one activist I know says that we have plenty of oil in the U.S., but that it is contained in shale, and that this is much more expensive. True or not, another example would be that we do have an abundance of coal that could last us for many decades (barring global warming considerations which obviously we shouldn't and can't afford to do if we are held financially liable). If we use coal for transportation to replace some oil (such as if we use coal to make Hydrogen), then it could be said that we could make some of our own fuel. Again: I realize that this is going to very great lengths to extend our calculation of US domestic fuel supply, but I wanted to round out the picture. Of course, if we don't artificially limit ourselves to fossil fuels, and if we take a much broader set of strategies including conservation at various levels, shifts to mass transit and walking and changes in transportation decisions, shifts to solar and wind energy contributing to personal EV fuel, etc., then I think we might actually be able to project a U.S. that comes closer to making all its own fuel. If at some point Nuclear were to be invented that is safe in all respects, that would probably make a nice contribution too, but I'm just having a hard time trusting the usually *very* heavy-handed arguments of some of the nuclear advocates. MM Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
