Cap and Trade vote on Friday

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Originally Posted by SniperSB23

If you are looking for a source that our oil reserves would be gone in 5 years if we stopped importing you can find that data easily enough in Chapter 5 of Bush's National Energy Policy by adding their estimates together and then relating it to our annual consumption.

The U.S. is sitting on the world's largest, untapped oil reserves -- reservoirs which energy experts know exist, but which have not yet been tapped and may not be attainable with current technology. In fact, such untapped reserves are estimated at about 2.3 trillion barrels, nearly three times more than the reserves held by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations and sufficient to meet 300 years of demand -- at today's levels -- for auto, truck, aircraft, heating and industrial fuel, without importing a single barrel of oil.

per Kiplinger 6/30/08