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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 11:42 AM Original message |
So, by my calculation the world uses 30 billion barrels of oil each year. |
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palm_to_forehead (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
1. Have you seen the price of oil, it's going pretty damn well for them. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 11:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yes, well we all love to hate on the oil companies. And with good reason. Then again... |
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palm_to_forehead (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 11:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I don't hate on oil companies for price increases |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. For now. But what happens when they deplete their wells? |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
4. Not exactly |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Also true. But I think we're sucking on the straw pretty hard these days. |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. And it isn't the cleanest straw. Is it? |
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louis-t (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm not sure of your math. |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. The US alone uses 6-7 billion barrels per year. nt |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
10. The math is about right, though mbpd is more customary |
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PamW (566 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-29-11 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. How about looking at the history.... |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. And the history is how we get projections |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-30-11 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
13. Arithmetic is a bitch |
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