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- gab00n, on 11/17/2007, -10/+508Those Saudis look like they could use some more freedom.
- andrewcsayer, on 11/17/2007, -8/+143Also explains why the military doesn't give a ***** about the African continent
- tehbored, on 11/17/2007, -7/+133This is partially inaccurate. Canada and the U.S. both have a ton of oil. Just in Canada, most of it is found in oil sands and in the U.S. most of it is in oil shoal, trapped in rock. Since we don't really have an effective way of extracting the oil from shoal, the U.S. one can pass, but Canada does get oil from oil sands, so those numbers should be included. They would have the second largest reserves in the world then.
- treelovinhippie, on 11/17/2007, -2/+71Strange. Canada has the second largest oil reserves, but they mustn't be mining it as much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves
- ryouko, on 11/17/2007, -4/+59President Bush's dartboard?
- Stevethegreat, on 11/17/2007, -1/+42They fear that US will bring freedom and democracy to Canada if they do.
- miketrin, on 11/17/2007, -8/+41My thoughts exactly. Freedom, american style!
- Sabretou, on 11/17/2007, -0/+32I see that Glorious Kazakhstan is not very far behind. Soon they will be the no. 1 exporter of Oil, much like they are the no. 1 exporter of Potassium.
- darwiniandemon, on 11/17/2007, -1/+33All our oil is in the oil sands - more difficult (and more expensive) to extract.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -4/+31Who has all the natural gas. The North West of Australia. Enough to supply Europe for 400 years. You easily convert natural gas to LPG. Who needs the Arabs for vehicle fuel no-one. OILS AIN'T OILS.The big problem is that the Arabs have a certain type of heavy oil which does not exist anywhere else in the world. This oil is needed for the manufacture of plastics. Vehicle fuel is just a by-product from the distillation process.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -7/+32"...and more natural gas than all of the Middle East."
Well that was a good joke!
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872966.html
Proven Natural Gas Reserves
1. Russia
2. Iran
3. Qatar
4. Saudi Arabia
5. UAE
6. US
...
Notice that 2,3,4 and 5 are in Middle east. - benroy, on 11/17/2007, -1/+25Is this really shocking to anyone? Yeah i get it, we're American pigs, our ***** doesn't stink and we live beyond our means.
It's also funny how everyone just assumes that oil = gasoline. It's important to realize that 80% of your life is plastic. Seriously, look around, what is most of your stuff made of?
I also appreciated the complete lack of references and/or citation. - inactive, on 11/17/2007, -6/+29This was on the front page a few weeks ago. Just as inaccurate and lame as before.
- dolezal73, on 11/17/2007, -2/+25Quit saying that we (Canada) has the 2nd largest reserves of oil. We're trying not to get attacked up here.
- neggbird, on 11/17/2007, -2/+22But in this world of $100 barrels, it's quite profitable.
- kinseyincanada, on 11/17/2007, -3/+22getting the oil from the sands is very very expensive.
- jdh24, on 11/17/2007, -22/+41Inaccurate. The United States has more oil from oil shale alone than all of the Middle East, and more natural gas than all of the Middle East. The US's oil 'reserves' have been mostly untapped.
- PueSi, on 11/17/2007, -0/+15Why Mexico is not on the oil reserves list?
We have 26,941 million barrells, a lot more than ***** Qatar - salmonz, on 11/17/2007, -2/+17Canada has the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world. The map content is highly inaccurate.
- Aard88, on 11/17/2007, -2/+16Even at the high estimate it costs around $20 a barrel to produce oil from oil sands. With oil hovering around $95 I would think this oil is very economical. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Tar_Sands
- lieutenantmudd, on 11/17/2007, -1/+15For the bulk of US oil fields, a field is considered depleted when it still has 2/3 of the original oil left in. Or at least it was until oil sailed north of $80 a barrel. That map is archaic. It counts only counts "easily" recoverable sweet and somewhat sour crude. With oil at its current price, all kinds of technologies exist to go into Oklahoma and re-pump old fields or go into Alberta and shovel entire swamps into a pot and boil the oil out. Hell, Digg had an article two weeks ago about melting oil based rocks in Colorado. What I am trying to say is that "proven reserves" is a dancing target, technology and especially the price of oil can dramatically change what the definition of proven reserves.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 11/17/2007, -0/+13That's pretty much what I mean. We already have business agreements with the Saudis and their oil and have for awhile. Why do you think no one went after Saudi Arabia after 9-11 even though most of the high jackers were saudi. We already get what we need from them. We don't care about invading them.
- NnyCW, on 11/17/2007, -2/+14They're too busy supplying us money to spread freedom everywhere else.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -1/+12That's America's oil you're hording!
- Schneckehaus, on 11/17/2007, -0/+11Great success.
- sanman, on 11/17/2007, -3/+13The higher the price of oil, the more economically attractive it is to extract from those sands.
Same goes for oil trapped in shale rock, which is very abundant in the US (more than triple what Saudi has) - jackal42, on 11/17/2007, -2/+12Actually the higher the cost of oil, the more it costs to extract. due to it being energy intensive. Tar sands have a EIoER (Energy input vs energy return) of 1:1 that means it takes the energy of barrel of oil to produce a barrel of oil ... not economic.
Biofuel has a negative EIoER. it takes more energy to produce, than what you get out of it. But keep it quiet, because it meant to be a secret, ok? - ferrazf, on 11/17/2007, -1/+11The oil reserve chart is highly innacurate, google it up
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -0/+9B) has been happening for decades man its not a secret either.
- SimonGray, on 11/17/2007, -3/+12Served with hot freedom fries!
- ErrorS, on 11/17/2007, -0/+9Yes, because the electricity that comes through your wall is generated by magic..
- Racerx52, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8Pretty sure it's the other way around.
Militants they support kill us, What does our Government do? Praise them! - soulkitchen, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8So in essence what you are saying is: "All our bases are belong to them" ??
- cyberdork, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8"For every barrel of synthetic oil produced in Alberta, more than 80 kg of greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere and between 2 and 4 barrels of waste water are dumped into tailing ponds that have replaced about 50 km² of forest. The forecast growth in synthetic oil production in Alberta also threatens Canada's international commitments. In ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, Canada agreed to reduce, by 2012, its greenhouse gas emissions by 6% with respect to [1990]. In 2002, Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions had increased by 24% since 1990."
- kvseelbach, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8Got a few guys from Kazakhstan in my petroleum engineering class, sponsored by their home government.
- shark615, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8You should probably research what you just posted. If the return was 1:1 Alberta wouldnt be what it is today and the tar sands would be left alone.
- inactive, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8Because you have it wrong.
Bush Sr. WORKS for the Saudis. Their whims are being met not ours. If the US goes to war with Iran...who will benefit? I'll put it in terms you can understand... If the US goes to war with Burger King, then McDolands stands to make quite a bit of money. - brad3378, on 11/17/2007, -0/+8Those Australians look like they could use some more land. Where did they go?
- Treshnell, on 11/17/2007, -1/+8I thought Canada was like second or third for the largest reserves, and I've read that in several other places. I question the accuracy of this map.
- Farik, on 11/17/2007, -2/+9What was the point of that?
- Racerx52, on 11/17/2007, -1/+8You ignorant bastard
- GawtMilk, on 11/17/2007, -0/+7You're saving something you've never seen. I feel bad for you.
- jugglingjon, on 11/17/2007, -1/+8or are we in theirs?
- RST1123, on 11/17/2007, -1/+8Supersized!
- mokayogi, on 11/17/2007, -0/+7Clearly you haven't been to Alberta. The whole province is run on oil and gas.
- Skootles, on 11/17/2007, -1/+7They tried that before - The war of 1812, so we went and burned down their white house. There's even a delightful Arrogant Worms song about it.
- Racerx52, on 11/17/2007, -1/+7Hey, Sup.
This article has 0% to do with Ron Paul, Until you showed up - doctorfungi, on 11/17/2007, -1/+7Tell that to the men and women who fought in Somalia in 93'
The military doesn't give two ***** about Africa because we've been there, done that, and no one ended up better for it. It's a lost cause. - alenonimo, on 11/17/2007, -1/+6This map needs update. Recently was found an ***** BIG oil reserve on Brazil. So big that Hugo Chavez is now having some nightmares.
- samiel86, on 11/17/2007, -0/+5Isn't Canada's Athabasca Oil Sands reserve supposed to rival that of Saudi Arabia's?
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