01-31-2011, 05:22 PM
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Biker Gnome
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Originally Posted by Bill8
That's a good chart - but it has a flaw.
Look up the number, in billions of gallons per year, that the US uses.
It varies a bit, and is down a bit now.
Then divide.
Here, I'll make it easy - this is the official DOE number.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/ask/crudeoil_...s_consume_year
Now, when our economy was booming, we were using about 8.2 billion gallons per year, but we are much weaker now.
Interesting to see this chart now says we have 21 billion gallons of oil reserves - a year ago the same chart would have said 23.
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There is little doubt that we consume way too much, but I still think we have more oil than people think. I found this article which was interesting in the way our need is growing
http://oil.com/articles/US_oil_consu...ential_growth/
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that
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