About twenty minutes. Once all the rednecks in the Southern states realise that they can no longer drive to their cousin Billy Bob Sue Joe's house for some incest rumpy pumpy they will go on a rampage.
The only thing we really export are jobs, weapons, mcdonalds, burger king, disney and wal-mart.
I imagine the rest of the world would be better off without our garbage.
if people will not sell it to us, we will take it.
ugly scenario, but if it reaches crisis situation you think our country would just bow down and fade away?
We grow and export a lot of food. Over 50% of the worlds's traded cereals are produced in the US (68% of corn exports are from the US, about 50% of it's soybeans etc)
If we cut that off there would be a lot of food pressure in the rest of the world
america is the saudi arabia of coal.
i'm sure the environmentalists would go nuts if we went all out goal gasification and burning the stuff like there was no tomorrow lol.
we hold the planet hostage!
how would the US invade without oil? what's going to run all the planes, tanks, helicopters, etc?
you take what you need.
in any case a real war to get oil from an oil state isn't that hard if you are brutal, because oil refineries and rigs are all stationary targets a few cruise missiles and your enemy is in the same boat. when a major war starts, no one has oil.
Except they would blow up all the equipment necessary to move the oil out of their countries. Pipelines BOOM! Same for rigs and anything else you could name.
It's one thing to invade, it's another to be able to take something like oil.
I dunno. We still have ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads that have been bored for a very long time. I say a simple threat of soup or radiation would make that decision a turnover real quick.Driving to work this morning, looking at gas at $3.44/gallon, it made me wonder how easily the world could gang up and cripple the US by saying, "No soup for you!!!" and cutting off the supply of oil. Obviously the strategic reserve would only help a very minimal bit, since that will be first and foremost designated for military assets.
But how quickly would the economy hit the shitter given our limited ability to produce crude nationally? I think it's what, something like 20% tops of our yearly gross oil consumption can be handled by domestic oil? A full cutoff would instantly drive prices through the roof, grinding most of the US to a standstill economically. It's scary to think about how precarious of a position we're in. I know I can't afford $5+/gallon gasoline, let alone the other 80% of products that use some form or other various petrochemical on a daily basis.
I blame Sarah Palin for this "drill baby drill" stuff. It doesn't take into account that:
1) Oil field size estimates are just that. They can vary wildly because it's still not an exact science.
2) A lot of oil in the US reserves is more difficult to extract and will require greater expense, deeper wells, or even oil shale extraction.
3) Current estimates place the US as having 21.4 billion barrels of oil. The US uses 21 million of barrels of oil a day. That means just over 1000 days of oil if we can actually extract and process every single barrel estimated in our reserves.
About twenty minutes. Once all the rednecks in the Southern states realise that they can no longer drive to their cousin Billy Bob Sue Joe's house for some incest rumpy pumpy they will go on a rampage.
how are you still not banned? every post you make scream returning banned troll, and yet here you are, still making ridiculous posts.
I heard that our domestic storage for our reserves are full. they need to open that pipe up so prices will drop
I heard that our domestic storage for our reserves are full. they need to open that pipe up so prices will drop
So.... you want to open the stategic military oil reserve in order to temporarily decrease prices, and when that is concluded, not only will we no longer have an emergency reserve, prices will go even higher because we have no bargaining chip.
In other news, Zargon maxes out his credit card on a regular basis waiting for inflation to make it so he owes less.....