I'm sure gas prices vary in Mexico just as they do here. I posted the national average price.
Are you sure you used the correct currency value and converted from liters to gallons properly ??
By the way, did you go fishing there? I caught two fantastic Pacific Sailfish (9 footers) the last time I was there.
Yep, which is why we must take the presidency and Senate in 2012.
Americans are overwhelmingly frustrated that we don't go after our own oil reserves.
This is typican instant gratification republican thinking. Live for today, pollute the environment, use up all our resources and don't worry about it. Our kids will solve the problems. 100 years from now we will be riding horses again if we haven't eaten them all.
you must have more faith in the GOP than me.....
you must have more faith in the GOP than me.....
No, no, no. Read it again.
I don't worry about it because I have full faith in American ingenuity and resolve. We're working on it right now, probably at a level and pace that would dumbfound us both. There's government, then there's what's happening behind government.
I have more faith in American people, and the people are awake now, much to the chagrin of both parties. Washington is being scrutinized bigtime by real people, not just a media that has its own skin in the game.
Just look at this forum. This wasn't happening even in the coffee shops or by the water coolers 15 years ago. We're paying attention now, and there's hell to pay.
Some problems can not be solved. Cheap abundant energy is most likely one of them. It's the same people of faith that got us into this mess.
No, I've heard varying opinions like everybody. The problem is, it's such a politically charged issue, that you can find someone to support what you want the answer to be no matter what.
Here's one (by MSNBC, no less) that says we have 122 years left.
World oil supply still plentiful, study shows - Business - Oil & energy - msnbc.com
Here's one that says there are huge amounts that we haven't even located yet.
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The fact is, no one knows for sure. Right now, we have so little idea of what is below the first couple of miles of the earth's crust, it's impossilble to make any real calculations.
You people just don't get it.
Researchers in California, Oregon and Washington noticed specks of sulfur compounds, carbon and other byproducts of coal combustion coating the silvery surfaces of their mountaintop detectors. These microscopic particles can work their way deep into the lungs, contributing to respiratory damage, heart disease and cancer.
Filters near Lake Tahoe in the mountains of eastern California "are the darkest that we've seen" outside smoggy urban areas, said Steven S. Cliff, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California at Davis.
Unless China finds a way to clean up its coal plants and the thousands of factories that burn coal, pollution will soar both at home and abroad. The increase in global-warming gases from China's coal use will probably exceed that for all industrialized countries combined over the next 25 years, surpassing by five times the reduction in such emissions that the Kyoto Protocol seeks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/business/worldbusiness/11chinacoal.html
Why didn't the republicans do something? They had 6 years of total control. The truth is the oil companies are happy with the way things are. They like shortages and huge profits.
Using our own reserves up even faster will not solve anything.
The Bakken is 8 months suppy at current US consumption. It's 3.6 billion barrels and we consume 7 billion barrels a year. Do the math.
You people just don't get it.
But "solutions" cannot be legislated or held to a timetable, and even when we find one, it tends to create new problems.Like I said, we'll handle it. This is far from our biggest problem in all this. Our dependence on third-worlders is far more disturbing to me than solving the next energy solution.
You know what's scary? Imagine this.
We solve the energy problem altogether. There is now almost no need for oil other than plastics and whatnot. Our need is reduced to a million barrels a year.
What's the middle east look like now? Ever watch 100 billion people starve to death?
the solution---omnibus energy, national mobilization (like fdr in ww2), emergency footing
oil, offshore, anwr, refineries, electrical power plants, clean coal, natural gas, nukes, wind, solar, tidal, butterfly wings, shale, batteries, electric cars, public investment in, tax breaks for, r&d...
anything that could conceivably return to the american economy POWER
energy is a guaranteed worldwide critical shortage for at least the next 50 years, he who produces power will have the entire planet at his well grounded feet
this is a JOBS initiative, these are great JOBS we're talkin---professional, productive, secure, with room for growth, benefits, retirements, health care...
this nation is emotionally and psychologically more than ready, it's chomping at the bit to channel its energies into initiatives holding promise to rescue this once great usa
the american people will react to leadership's call with the enthusiasm mustered by fdr in our last national emergency
the solution---omnibus energy, national mobilization, war footing
JOBS!
Eleven billion barrels is double the previous estimate of reserves, and could eventually push North Dakota into second place among the states for oil production, leapfrogging over California and Alaska and trailing only Texas.
The GOP had a very small majority so the democrats could block anything they wanted to. Few have a filibuster proof congress like Obama had for 2 years
Yu guys are really pathetic.
LOL!
you got a problem with markets?
So how many years supply is that at current US consumption of 7 billion barrels a year?
According to the EIA, we import a little over 3 billion barrels a year.
U.S. Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products
But "solutions" cannot be legislated or held to a timetable, and even when we find one, it tends to create new problems.
The biggest problem, IMO, is the lack of concern by 300 million Americans. If we really wanted to, we could cut our usage to the point that OPEC members would be crapping themselves, and I mean right now.
Making our cars get better fuel mileage only gives us an excuse to drive more. Problem NOT solved....
Using our cars less is a better answer to the problem.
Where are the leaders calling for 65 mph speed limits on the freeways? My 2000 Impala gets far better mpg than advertised, but it is how I drive it that makes the difference.
So how many years supply is that at current US consumption of 7 billion barrels a year?
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