[ale] [OT] Psychology of Denial about Climate Change

[Jeff Hubbs]

Oh?  Where am I - or, rather, where is the DOE (where I got the numbers) 
wrong, David?

On 2/25/10 4:11 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jeff Hubbs<jhubbslist at att.net>  wrote:
>
>    
>> This GOP rallying cry hides a certain facetiousness:  we have been and
>> already are.
>>
>> The US produces more than 90% of the petroleum products it consumes and
>> imports about 3M barrels per day of refined petroleum products.
>> Furthermore, we export almost 2M barrels a day of oil, almost all of it in
>> the form of refined products.
>>
>> We import more oil from non-OPEC countries than OPEC countries and that has
>> been true since the 1990s and was true through much of the 1980s.
>>
>> Funny thing, reality.
>>      
> It is. I just don't think you are there. The U.S. produces ~6 Million
> barrels a day of oil,
> and consumes over 20.7 M barrels a day.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_oil_production.
> Refined products do go out of the country (particularly diesel fuels
> to Europe), but we
> by far use more energy than we produce - and that has been the case
> since the 1970's...
> The days of $200/barrel oil are on the way....
>
> -- Dave
>
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