This f*cken SHyyytteee!!!!!!!!!!!

okay obviously the objective it seems to me is to dry up the natural resource as to propel us into a further war in the middle-east maybe not to take over osha but just like to rape right through it with fear and paranoia as to what are we to do to ...shit....I wonder what we could if our oils supply was damaged

what pisses me off is the appearance of apathy towards this situation and others like it ***GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRararwrrrrrGGGGrrr**

People really need to understand where there oil comes from.

The number one oil producing country in the world:
Saudi Arabia

Number two:
Canada

Why would America, one of the, if not the, richest country in the world go to war over oil, when the largest oil producer is in there pocket, and the other is right beside them. It makes no sense.

Besides everyone knows the war in Iraq is preparation for the ensuing war with Iran. Now why people are Afghanistan is confusing, since there is nothing of value in there, I guess it actually is a peace mission. Who knew?

not the saudis our relationship with them as well as most of those on the osha board are weak. There are two middle eastern countries on our side, however we are occupying them both in a military siege.

hahaha! They got a bunch of retarded sounding names over there, don't they? hahahah!

With the Saudi people; yes. With the Saudi government; no. So as long as the US buys large amount of oil, essentially funding the entire country, making it incredible wealthy. Until that stops the Saudis are in the US's back pocket. Their smart enough not to bite the hand that feeds.

Now Nathaniel, kiddie porn comes from south east asia; Thailand, Vietnam, you know. Now for opium, well I guess you have me on that. But if it was only for opium then there would be no need for such a large occupation at this point, there would've been only counter insurgency forces, not peace-keeping and counter insurgency forces(amongst others.)

thanx bpl for reeling it in back on topic! post gets pretty willey 'round here ya'know.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/21...

Actually, Russia is the number two producing oil country in the world, but that's a different story. What you need to think about is how much oil is USED per country.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922041.html#axzz0wG1kwstQ

The US uses about 20 MILLION barrels of oil per day. 20 millions! That's a whole big bunch of oil, we produce around 8 of that. Which means we've got to get 12 million barrels of oil per day from someplace else. We could buy it from Russia, but they can sell their supply at a higher profit via pipeline to Europe. Now that they're all capitalist and stuff.

Thing about the Gulf, is that it makes this lovely little triangle for shipping. You can hit the Saudis for their 8 million, Iraq for their 2 and Kuwait for it's 2 on one trip and then zip right through the Suez back across the Atlantic home. Makes for a higher profits when you're shipping more for less. Halliburton and Texaco-Chevron aren't run by idiots, they've taken an economics class or too.

Closer countries like Venezuela, Mexico and Brazil are impracticable because there just isn't enough oil to make it a priority. Also, we suck at fighting jungle wars like when we tried to take over Panama for cheaper oil shipping.

Did I just turn into Giggan?

The US uses about 20 MILLION barrels of oil per day. 20 millions! That's a whole big bunch of oil,

It's not like it's 20 Billion though. 20 million isn't really all that much, what's that come to? around a 1/4 of a gallon per person?

1 barrel = 55 gallons of oil. 20 million barrels = 1.1 billion gallons of oil a day.

That's around 400 billion gallons of oil a year.

is 30 gallons per person all that much though. I drink more in milk a year than that. we do get all the milk from here though so I dunno.

Milk is a renewable resource. Oil is finite. Once it's gone, it takes another 100 billion years to renew.

so it's about 4 gallons a day per person?

Sure, whatever the math is. I was reading somewhere about running out of potable water being a bigger crisis than the oil crisis. I'll do some research and edit it in later.

4 gallons for every man woman and child in the US is a lot of consumption. Scary to think about it that way.

Just for the record, I do NOT drink 4 gallons of milk a day.

unless chocolate milk counts.

It's not like it's 400 trillion though.

Common misconception, the Alberta oil sands uses a completely different method of extracting oil, it's entirely done by surface mining. Since statistics only include conventional production, which only amounts to the offshore oil rigs off the Yukon and North West coastline, a declining source of oil.

Weren't the Trillions an alien race on Star Trek?

But isn't it constantly renewing itself from 100 billion years ago? I know we're using probably more than it can renew right now but still. Also, 100 billion years will never pass. That's ridiculous.

isn't our sun supposed to burn itself out within 20 billion years anyways? Why not use it all up.

I was being facetious with the 100 billion number and as I looked it up it appears no one knows how long, but it's in the 100's of thousands of years instead.

The point was it's easier to make milk than oil. There's a significant difference in production time.

have they ever figured out that whole Peak Oil thing? have we passed it yet do they think?