What struck me about this was the estimate for the oil in that small area of the gulf puts it near the ANWAR estimate if you use the upper end of the range. Wonder how much more oil is out there in the forbidden drilling zones off Florida, the East Coast and California?
"The paper also cited an Interior Department study that said the U.S. continental shelf contained 115 billion barrels of oil and 633 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That would be enough oil to satisfy U.S. demand, at current consumption levels, for 16 years and enough natural gas for 25 years, according to the Times."
http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/09/news/economy/oil_cuba/index.htm?cnn=yes
[Wonder how much more oil is out there in the forbidden drilling zones off Florida, the East Coast and California?]
A retired ceo of BP once said their is more oil in the gulf of Mexico than all Arab nations combined. But the lib enviormentalist kooks control the senate pubs, unfortunately.
And republicans wonder why conservatives don't vote for them anymore?
"Wonder how much more oil is out there in the forbidden drilling zones off Florida, the East Coast and California?"
I'm guessing all that we and our Children and our Grandchildren to the 10th generation could consume.