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Originally Posted by lkagele
The reality is the US has more oil reserves than any other country in the world. We could have low fuel prices for over 300 years if we wanted to. Unfortunately, the 'greenies' have too much influence and are pushing technologies that really aren't yet ready for widespread use. Plus, 'green technology' is anything but green. Buy electric if you want but don't force it on the general public.
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You can like gas, you can like electric.
But whichever you like, you should not make up false statistics. The US absolutely does not have more oil reserves than any other country in the world. Not even close.
We are tenth according to our own department of energy. We are behind : Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Canada, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Russia, and Libya. Take a look at the link to how many years of oil reserves we have. It isn't 300 years.
Take a good look at that list of countries with lots of oil and tell me how many of them are our allies? I count one.
The countries below us on the list are not filled with friendlies either. It is time, past time for Western democracies to very seriously move beyond an oil based economy or we will find ourselves hostage to those countries with oil, as Western Europe is now with Putin.