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>