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- vbellian, on 10/10/2007, -9/+71Maybe if we found alternate fuels instead of just alternate sources it wouldn't matter how big we were on this map
- kaelyiesta, on 10/10/2007, -1/+59Oil use per person might be a more interesting representation. Some countries with small populations but large consumption per person would stick out a lot better that way.
- burtonbe, on 11/07/2007, -2/+51A hard fact that many Canadians may find difficult to accept:
Oil use per capita:
#17 United States: 68.838 bbl/day per 1,000 peopl
#18 Canada: 68.703 bbl/day per 1,000 peopl
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con_percap-energy-oil-consumption-per-capita - biochem, on 11/07/2007, -9/+57Not entirely accurate. Canada has the 2nd largest supply of oil in the world. Like about 180billion barrels depending on what study u read. Shhhh, dont tell the US though or we may be invaded instead of Iran.
- luet, on 11/07/2007, -1/+41Wooo canada!
Also, they don't factor in Canada's potential oil because it's trapped in tar sands, and the process to purify it is expensive and tedious. - inactive, on 11/07/2007, -4/+34Best friends with Saudi Arabia, check.
Invaded Iraq, check.
Iran.... gee, I wonder what their real motives are. - pintomp3, on 11/07/2007, -2/+27if only we had maps in america.
- 11Heather, on 11/07/2007, -0/+25You have to know the real size of each of these countries to appreciate what this map is doing with shrinking and expanding countries sizes relative to their oil reserves. e.g. Kuwait is tiny in reality, but HUUUGE on this map.
- Zarokima, on 11/07/2007, -4/+28Oil is more profitable. They don't care what's best for the people, they care about what brings in more money.
- indorock, on 11/07/2007, -2/+25This map apparently only considers actual fluid oil wells. The vast majority of Canada's oil reserves are held in the "tar sands" of northern Alberta. According to some experts. the second largest oil reserve next to Iraq. But the oil in the sands is much harder and more expensive to extract than that in fluid form, for obvious reasons. But once the fluid stuff runs out, guess what country will be next on USA's axis of evil?
- anilr, on 11/07/2007, -2/+22As Luet said - Canada's presence is missing since the data is old. According to good ol' wikipedia...
Proven Reserves in order:
1 Saudi Arabia
2 Canada
3 Iran
4 Iraq
5 United Arab Emirates and Kuwait
6 Venezuela
7 United States
8.Mexico
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+24.......we are the world's largest oil user BUT we're the world's largest producer (GDP). The real problem is going to occur as 3rd world countries develop their appetite for oil.
- Xyleene, on 10/10/2007, -5/+19As a Canadian I know that.. as do most Canadians.. the ***** fact is it's damn cold here and we're a large country so we have to heat our houses and drive further to get anywhere.
- GoneSouth, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Don't worry, market forces will take care of this. Government doesn't need to put a nickel into solar. Oil will become increasingly more expensive, and solar will become increasingly cheaper and more efficient. At some point in the next 20 years, solar will be cheaper than oil.
- zenatek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Yah, that is the first thing I thought when I saw this map. Canada has a huge amount of Oil now.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14So then if people from the US told you guys to live in smaller houses, or make them thermally more efficient, would that be on-par with other countries telling people in the US to stop driving SUVs?
- ubersauce, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Kazakhstan number eight exporter of fossil fuel, all the other countries have inferior fossil fuel.
Very nice. - rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12You need to read up on the definition of "peak oil". It is not a measure of total production, it is a measure of total production at a low cost. From this point forward, oil extraction is becoming more and more expensive. We've got most of the easy stuff. There is still plenty of oil in the ground - but oil prices will trend upwards indefinitely.
- quickjack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8particularly when nanotechnology greatly improves the efficiency of solar cells http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0114_050114_solarplastic.html
- Alegoo92, on 10/10/2007, -7/+15I know it sounds clichéd, but damn I wish solar power was moving along faster. It seems so efficient! I'm not sure, but I don't think it even produces a percentage of the waste coal/oil produce... I don't see why the government can't put more funding into it.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13Right, they sit there and let the US do all the hard work for them.
- schuder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Buried as inaccurate. Canada's reserves aren't mentioned in there, and considering it has an estimated 175 billion barrels mostly in the Alberta shale. Poor piece of crap.
http://www.rense.com/general37/petrol.htm - ThinkBox, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh...people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and...I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our...
- Woofcat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Over 50% of USA's oil comes from Canada. ***** Saudi.
- ColinCampbell, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Hardly trapped anymore, there's a ton of oil coming out of Alberta now. Plus the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are being developed and the Hebron project should be taking off with the next few years.
- rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -5/+10Check a news articles more recent than 20 years ago. The permafrost is starting to melt all over the place, and, as the commenter said, roads built on it are falling apart.
The Northwest Passage is open right now, for crying out loud. Wake up and smell the climate change. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Oil? You cookin' bitch?
- rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11At its maximum, a decade after drilling begins, ANWR can onlly produce a little over 1 million barrels a day. The US consumes 20 million barrels a day. A 3 mile per gallon increase in fuel efficiency standards would save as much oil as the total ANWR production.The Kerry-McCain fuel efficiency standards, which the Bush Administration blocked, would have saved three times as much oil as ANWR would ever produce.
And it wouldn't even produce at that level for long -probably under a decade to a decade and a half, based on current total yield estimates. But, it would make some oil company executives very rich. - elnerdo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9Technically oil IS solar power.
- Aroundtown27, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Yeah, I think this map needs to be updated
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6and number one exporter of potassium.
- skunkworker, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Well If you add in the more types of oil reserves ( oil shale) for example, the united states would dwarf saudi arabia with 1200 billion barrels of oil
- harvinator24, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5The United States actually has the most oil. there are billions of barrels of oil in the rockies but its expensive somewhat expensive to proccess since its shale oil. If our government would put some funding into it will be really really cheap.
- rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9What you don't talk about is the fact that is was those "wacko evnironmentalists" that are responsible for the pipeline being built the way it was, rather than the way the oil executives wanted.
But, hey, why mess with facts when you can just spout dogma? - SanTe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"At some point in the next 20 years, solar will be cheaper than oil."
Not likely to ever happen unless solar's efficiency improves several thousand percent, and it is not expected that that kind of improvement will ever be possible. For solar to become cheaper than oil it would have to produce an equal amount of energy output at the same price. Nothing, and I mean *nothing*, comes anywhere close to oil on a cost-benefit basis.
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net has a long but very detailed explanation of how no form of energy production currently in existence or on the horizon can ever hope to produce the amount of energy we currently use from oil production. Not only are we going to have to vastly improve efficiency and boost output of every type of non-fossil fuel energy production we can come up with, but we are all going to have to radically cut our energy consumption. It's either that or a die off.
I do agree that solar is getting more efficient though. We're gonna need all the help we can get. - kenvsryu, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I thought Canada had more?
- obliviousfool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/alberta_tar_san.php
Getting oil from tar sands requires a lot of water and the energy to turn the water into steam and all that. Someday it will be cost effective but it isn't right now. - mbelleghem, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6at $80 a barrel, Canada's oilsands are perfectly viable. SAG/D is costing $35-$45 a barrel, recovered, all in to market, at present rates. Considering the likelihood of a $100 barrel of oil, Canada's oilsands are likely to be profitably exploitable for as least as long as US military silliness keeps prices hovering in the sillysphere (ie until 2060 or the next American revolution, whichever comes first).
- Scrappy1850, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4They are the only two that matter at all. As soon as we aquire all the hockey teams, Canada will become expendable.
- TrevorBradley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4You are... that's why our currencies are almost at par now. Just missed 97 cents on the dollar today.
Considering it was 62 cents just 5 years ago, we're doing pretty good. Your dollar will be inferior to ours within a year or two. - DutchGuilder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yup, Canada does have more, lots more. The list is only for conventional oil reserves (recovered by drilling). Canada's tar sands (non-conventional) reserves are guesstimated to be 300Gb, while Saudi's conventional reserves are only 240 Gb. But wait, there's more! 300Gb of oil is about 100 years worth of global energy; but Alberta alone has another 1,000 years of global energy in known coal reserves! Coal can be converted to oil, is just takes more $$$.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5You're also friends with Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Emirates and a ***** load others!
- subterfuge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+480% of america's oil goes to transportation, but we still use a ***** of coal to produce electricity.
- SleepingOrange, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Which is why Russia has the same consumption as Canada, its also a large cold country.
- MrSteamTank, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8As Xyleene said Canada is incredibly cold and heating is very expensive. Take a look at the average winter temperature of the cities in Canada Ottawa = -10.8 °C Edmonton = -11.7°C Calgary = −9 °C Montreal = −10.4 °C Toronto = -4 °C Vancouver = 3 °C So the only city without consistent freezing winter weather is Vancouver. Ottawa is the capital with the third coldest winters and the snowiest capital in the entire world. Although this doesn't completely excuse our poor consumption history it does definitely make it look less bad. 8P
- joel2600, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4anyone who talks in all caps or appends FTW to anything needs to be kicked in the genitals
- kokuei, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If those people were smart they'd get in on the ground floor of the next big alternative source. They could make a killing when it gets big and be in the same situation. What's the problem?
- newnie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3considering this a is a horrible misrepresentation ... (and just plain WRONG data) .. I would disagree
- sjl127, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2china's not accurately represented. They use a hell of a lot of oil.
- UnstableMind, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Why do you think they're pushing for the NAU?
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