Reply #5: Well, still do the math. 3 x 10 to the eighth divided by 3.6 bbl.

[tom_paine]

= enough oil for the US for 100 years. That presupposes that every drop of that oilfield can be drilled, and impossibility. Let's say 50% of it is accessible, that's 50 years, assuming a cosntant import rate, which it has been going up and up and up so let's say 30 years.

Even if this is a true analysis of the math, the effects of business as usual on the atmosphere and oceans means even IF we had a limitless cornucopia of oil, we wouldn't want to burn it all.