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Originally Posted by l3uddha  as far as the oil in alaska, i suggest calling PIRG and listening to what they have to say. they'll give you all the numbers you want...
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Yes, and then I'll give you the telephone number for greenpeace and you can ask them if we should stop killing whales or not.
PIRG? Look up AKpirg's website and you'll see that their agenda is heavily tainted by the tree-hugging dreamers who think everything can run on hydrogen by next tuesday. gimme a break.
If I want to know how much oil is in Alaska, I'll ask the oil and exploration companies who are spending BILLIONS in trying to find out exactly how much is there and exactly where it is. These companies don't give billions away to fund a couple of billion barrels. My bet (from a little research and settling on a rough medium estimate from estimates on both ends of the spectrum) is ABOUT 10 Billion barrels (give or take a billion or two).
Now, conservative estimates put the reserves in Iraq at 200 Billion barrels, which means there's probably 300billion or so, all told. So, yeah, there's a shitload of oil in Iraq, but there's plenty in Alaska to keep us going for several decades, even if we stopped buying oil from Canada (our biggest oil supplier) today.