We have more oil under thewestern states
By Lakota12
@Lakota12 (42600)
United States
November 7, 2009 5:39pm CST
In the western states of U.S.A. we have more oil than Iraq,Sauie adn the other place that we are bing oil from.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders,
than all the other proven reserves on earth. Here are the official estimates:
- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
- 18-times as much oil as Iraq
- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait
- 22-times as much oil as Iran
- 500-times as much oil as Yemen
- and it's all right here in the Western United States .
Also those places are going to run out of oil they havent found any NEW oil in like I think I read 20 years.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Nov 09
I had heard this before. But we would have quite a fight on our hands to get people to let us have acess to it. Drilling for it would obliderate alot of natural forest lands and such. I hope that when the time comes to drill for this oil that alot of beautiful country isn't ruined.
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
8 Nov 09
I heard that we have very good new technology for extracting the oil, pretty much by bending the line under the drill point rather than digging up much earth.. I sometimes think it's another agenda altogether as there are few laws on the (lumber) strip cutting that goes on.. perhaps we have lobbyists from the middle east.. as long as there is lobbying allowed, we can all just forget "of the people, by the people" concerning anything..
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
8 Nov 09
The coutry I seen in Utah was so barren it wouldnt even grow a cactus.
and the invirmetalist stand in the way of what we need they are nuts
And it can be worked around NOT to hurt any thing.
My hubby put up with alot of these people when they put up power poles across the country really never was anything hurt and yup they did put roads thru for the the trucks and equipment but they also flollowed roads that was already there.
I have gone back to places and ya can hardly see where this was.
I havde really never seen a place where they can get oil from have a forest on it
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
8 Nov 09
and what about the timer cutters stripping every thing out. and never plant a tree back! now that looks awful whe all those trees are stripped out of there and they leave never a clean up or a tree planted back for the future! and they tak every thing.
not like a responsible lumber jack or boss that go pick out what trees to cut and what ones to be left for the futre and also plant trees in barrin spots.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
8 Nov 09
Go figure!! wHEN U FIGURE OUT WHY THEY ARE NOT USING WHAT IS RIGHT HERE IN THE GOOD OL' U.S.A., PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
8 Nov 09
tHEY need to do a trade thing on some of the idiots that came up w/the great ideas.
@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
8 Nov 09
It is good that we have this resource in our own back yard. My hope is that we start to look at more green resources like wind and solar power.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
7 Nov 09
I know that canada has the most oil reserves on earth, we never had to by from the middle east
usa today also reports that canada has the most oil here is the source:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2004-09-07-oil-sands_x.htm
this here is some other info
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August 2009 Import Highlights: October 29, 2009
Monthly data on the origins of crude oil imports in August 2009 has been released and it shows that three countries exported more than 1.00 million barrels per day to the United States (see table below). The top five exporting countries accounted for 64 percent of United States crude oil imports in August while the top ten sources accounted for approximately 84 percent of all U.S. crude oil imports. The top sources of US crude oil imports for August were Canada (2.007 million barrels per day), Mexico (1.057 million barrels per day), Venezuela (1.007 million barrels per day), Nigeria (0.877 million barrels per day), and Saudi Arabia (0.745 million barrels per day). The rest of the top ten sources, in order, were Iraq (0.500 million barrels per day), Algeria (0.404) million barrels per day), Angola (0.352 million barrels per day), Brazil (0.269 million barrels per day), and Columbia (0.260 million barrels per day). Total crude oil imports averaged 8.883 million barrels per day in August, which is a decrease of (0.344) million barrels per day from July 2009.
Canada remained the largest exporter of total petroleum in August, exporting 2.524 million barrels per day to the United States, which is a decrease from last month (2.639 thousand barrels per day). The second largest exporter of total petroleum was Mexico with 1.159 million barrels per day.
Crude Oil Imports (Top 15 Countries)
(Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country Aug-09 Jul-09 YTD 2009 Aug-08 YTD 2008
CANADA 2,007 2,110 1,928 1,873 1,926
MEXICO 1,057 985 1,126 1,292 1,209
VENEZUELA 1,007 865 1,014 1,146 1,049
NIGERIA 877 858 694 1,035 998
SAUDI ARABIA 745 1,137 1,022 1,533 1,537
IRAQ 500 365 459 663 675
ALGERIA 404 143 253 348 313
ANGOLA 352 320 484 483 512
BRAZIL 269 375 332 169 217
COLOMBIA 260 286 261 247 190
RUSSIA 229 267 266 120 126
KUWAIT 148 261 179 203 205
EQUATORIAL GUINEA 132 123 96 123 68
ECUADOR 131 112 192 291 209
UNITED KINGDOM 72 45 112 41 58
Total Imports of Petroleum (Top 15 Countries)
(Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country Aug-09 Jul-09 YTD 2009 Aug-08 YTD 2008
CANADA 2,524 2,639 2,459 2,247 2,473
MEXICO 1,159 1,316 1,265 1,401 1,318
VENEZUELA 1,070 959 1,138 1,305 1,207
NIGERIA 917 879 735 1,166 1,066
SAUDI ARABIA 766 1,153 1,053 1,573 1,556
ALGERIA 551 329 473 530 526
RUSSIA 512 637 621 490 491
IRAQ 500 365 461 663 675
ANGOLA 364 320 494 495 523
BRAZIL 275 392 350 208 245
COLOMBIA 269 305 284 257 210
UNITED KINGDOM 225 188 248 222 218
VIRGIN ISLANDS 223 273 291 298 326
NETHERLANDS 160 118 144 143 163
KUWAIT 148 261 182 203 208
Note: The data in the tables above exclude oil imports into the U.S. territories.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
8 Nov 09
http://www.trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_2538b221-ab42-5e38-822c-945cc5970a1c.html
here is another one about shell oil.
I do know that when I lived in a town in Colo.
Callede Rifle that they had put up a operation around Silt Colo.
to squeeze iol out of the rocks.
and that was 46 years ago!
They have a way to get Cold out of mines here in Nevada why then cant they do the oil the same away.
Also I know Canada has lots of oil for I think it was back in the 70s when cars were lining up in gas line to get gas that a feller told me that we really would never run out of oil between the states and canada.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
8 Nov 09
oklahoma has lots of oil that pipe line goes from oklahoma through canada to alaska, that pipeline shared by the two coutries is hugmongus. however you spell that weird,
yes we have shell oil here too in canada the big oil companies work in both countries, but sometimes the names are changed but the same company,like your exxon is texaco here
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
8 Nov 09
My brother used to be a ship's Captain for Shell Petroleum at one point in his career and he told me something, about 20 years ago, very similar to that information in your topic . My last husband was a crew chief for Rocky Mountain Helicopters and they were always going on trips for seismic testing and he also said the same thing!!!
@redthaidevil (1047)
• Thailand
11 Nov 09
Hi Lakota12, I do know that America has probably the biggest supply of oil in the whole wide world. I do know that if the oil consumption is going at this rate, we will not be using oil in the next 15 years, as we will save it for up coming events. I do wish we can stop using them now and show the air powered cars that are running in Luxemburg.
