RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: The Threat of Oil Drilling

Steve Brenneis responds to Behethland B. Clark:

The tricky thing about oil production is that it isn't really about any particular field's total capacity. As I mentioned in my post on the CSM article, the important numbers are daily production. The USGS estimates daily oil consumption at 19.6 million barrels per day, with about 2/3 of that being imported. ANWR, as reported by Oil Analytics, will produced between 1 million and 2 million barrels per day for about thirty years. As I said, that is more oil than we import from Saudi Arabia. If you want to see some Arabs pucker up, tell Saudi Arabia we won't be buying any oil from them for the next thirty years. I guarantee you that it would be open season on jihadists in the Arabian peninsula.