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In a message dated 9/21/2007 12:32:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
timopp AT gmail.com writes:


> The government own the Strategic Petroleum Reserves some 30 billion
> barrels filling old salt mines in Louisiana. But there are lots of
> areas with oil, the problem is the cost of extraction. Why spend the
> money if you can get it cheaper elsewhere.

We use 30 million barrels of oil a day.  Even if the reserves were completely 
full (which they have rarely been in modern times), than means in about 32 
months we would be flat out of oil.   </HTML>