World Oil Resources estimates by Edwards?
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The world will likely want more than it can get by 2020.\n\nGood! Maybe someone will finally get serious about a workable alternative!
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ALL ESTIMATES ARE ROUGHLY\nOil\nSpent in USA\n$100-150 billion every year on crude oil\nUsed in USA\n60 billion gallons of petroleum diesel\n120 billion gallons of gasoline\n\nBiodiesel\n\nTo grow the "feedstocks"\n$80,000 per hectare for algal ponds\n3.85 million hectares of algae ponds would be need to replace all petroleum transportation fuels with biodiesel\n$308 Billion just to build the farms\n\nOperating cost\n$12,000 per hectare\n$46.2 billion per year to yield all the oil feedstock necessary for the entire country\n\nI will add more fuel later must go watch TV now\n***EDIT***\nOk I am back, it turn out that makeing ethanol and biodiesel are around the exact same cost.  But I doubt that they will ever be a realistic source of fuel.\n\n I found this and thought you might find it interesting\n""...but producing ethanol or biodiesel from plant biomass is going down the wrong road, because you use more energy to produce these fuels than you get out from the combustion of these products.""\n\nStudies done everywhere show that cost and disposal of the bi-products are going to be a problem, plus energy wise its just not worth it.  They are working on these problems trying to figure something out to make it more feasible.\n\nIn terms of energy output compared with energy input for ethanol production, the study found that: \n\ncorn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; \nswitch grass requires 45 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced; and \nwood biomass requires 57 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced. \n\nIn terms of energy output compared with the energy input for biodiesel production, the study found that: \n\nsoybean plants requires 27 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced, and \nsunflower plants requires 118 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced.
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Convince the usa government that theres vast amounts of oil to be had
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_refinery
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That question can’t be answered until you tell us what we mean by ‘supply’. Oil supplies are measured in 3 basic ways.\n\nThe first type of supply is the liquid crude reserve supply. This is the amount of liquid oil that we absolutely, definitely know we can make a prophet out of at today’s prices and using today’s technology.  We have drilled well into reserve supplies, we know they are there, we know how much and we know the quality. Proven reserves are in the 1017-981 billion barrel range. (See link 1 below)\n\nThe second type is the  liquid crude  resource supply. This is the amount of liquid oil that we know exists in the ground that we can reasonably expect to be able to get to if we need it. We haven’t fully explored resource supplies. There might have been a few test holes drilled and various seismic tests but at the moment it’s not worth doing more detailed investigation because it isn’t profitable enough. Current estimates of world liquid oil resources range from 2, 248 to 3, 896 billion barrels. (See link 2 below).\n\nThen come the non-liquid oil resources. These are massive. They include tar sands and oil shales amongst other things. Although Canada has been profitably extracting sand oil for decades it is less profitable than drilling for liquid crude oil, so nobody has fully explored the extent of sand and shale oil. We know it’s huge, far larger than the amount of liquid crude ever discovered. But just how large is uncertain. Best estimates say that worldwide tar sands amount to 6,200 billion barrels with 890 billion\nbarrels being “recoverable”, while oil shale  in the US alone amounts to some 160,000 billion barrels (see link 3 below).\n\n______________\n>>>> guess-timates put our production peak around 25 years.\n\nNo, they don't. They put our liquid crude peak at around then, but the question asked about all oil, not just liquid crude. The leak for all oil won't come for another 100 years or so.
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www.oilnergy.com has great historical info and graphs on oil and energy prices. On their main page click on the graphs button next to the "WTI posted ($/BBL)" line. THe menu accros the top includes a graph of oil going back to 1920. http://www.oilnergy.com/1opost.htm#since20
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Specifically as crude oil the best estimate is 2.2 trillion barrels. That includes estimates of undiscovered oil. Known remaining reserves of crude oil are about 890 billion barrels.\n\nHowever, to truly consider remaining reserves you must consider natural gas and NGL's (natural gas liquids). The most reliable estimate is that about 4.9 (Four and nine-tenths: sorry Yahoo seems to be censoring nines)trillion barrels of oil equivalent remain. The "equivalent' part is because natural gas and condensate are also included in that estimate, while these are normally measured in cubic feet and not barrels. This estimate does not include tar sands, oil shale, or gas hydrates which may all make significant contributions in the future. Tar sands are already producing significant oil in northern Canada.   \n\nThe estimate includes remaining reserves, reserve growth (a phenomenon where initial estimates of oil in place often are found to be too low after the fields are fully explored), and estimates of undiscovered oil. Undiscovered oil can be estimated by examining what are called petroleum systems, where basins have formed significant deposits that should contain oil. \n\nThis estimate was made by the USGS in 2000 and the results are published in an American Association of Petroleum Geologists book titled "Global Resource Estimates from Total Petroleum Systems".
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but this is imports: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html\n\nProduction for the US: http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/infosheets/crudeproduction.htm\n\nA few major countries:\nhttp://www.chartoftheday.com/20060120.htm?T\n\nThis one is for 2004:\nhttp://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/topworldtables1_2.html\n\nYou can probably find a similar for 2005.\n\nThe main page is here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/petroleum.html
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Go here:\n\nhttp://www.ofm.wa.gov/databook/energy/yt02.asp
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The National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides estimates of quantities of technically recoverable oil and natural gas that could be added to our already proved reserves in the onshore and State offshore areas of the United States.\n\nit is table format so you should go to this link to look \n\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs024-98/table1.htm
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Yes. In about 150 years there will be no oil if we continue this way.\nAnyway .. there are unlimited resources, at least for energy, ... solar/eolian/waterfall energy.\nHope this helps
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Water as fuel is not reality. Neither is the belief we are fighting for oil.\n\nYou might as well believe in the tooth fairy and Easter bunny.
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Wonderful question really.  "When will the Earth's fossil fuels run out?"  I have heard different estimates including in a few a decades, to a century.  Doesn't really matter now though does it. JESUS will return someday soon.  That is in the Bible.  That message was warned us from JESUS HIMSELF. Yet, in the here and now, if one wants a stable society without pandering to terrorists, supplying them with the money to build the bombs they want to use to destroy us, we need to end our dependency on foreign oil.  The only solution then is alternative renewable energy.  Solar Power, Batteries, Hydrogen, Fuel Cell technology.  Solutions such as Ethanol and Fuel additives are partial solutions which require often flexible engines that can use such fuels.  And it requires that we get oil tycoons, who have a vested monetary interest in current oil reserves to invest in and promote these technologies with incentives and the promise of future profits on their investments.  Yet, repent and prepare for the return of JESUS CHRIST, because he may return any day now.  Even today, be ready, everyday for that eventuality.  \n\n-LOVE YOUR NIEGHBOR AS YOURSELF
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"In today's complex global markets, the price of crude oil is set by movements on the three major international petroleum exchanges, all of which have their own Web sites featuring information about oil prices. They are the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX, http://www.nymex.com), the International Petroleum Exchange in London (IPE, http://www.ipe.uk.com) and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX, http://www.simex.com.sg)."\n\n\n\nBasically the availability of oil as well as the cost of finding more are the main reasons for the pricing of crude oil. But there are a lot more factors that come into play when you start talking about gas prices which are connected directly to the cost of oil.\n\n\n\n"Global economic expansion is driving what the International Energy Agency says is the biggest increase in oil demand for 24 years.\n\nOil companies have tried to become more efficient in recent years and operate with lower stocks of crude oil. This means there is less of a cushion in the market against supply interruptions.\n\nThe combination of low stocks and Opec action to keep them low leaves the market exposed to the prospect of sudden price rises if supplies are threatened.\n\nThe world's major oil consumers remain dependent on the Middle East for their oil. Recent violence in Iraq and Saudi Arabia has again raised fears about an interruption to supplies.\n\nAnalysts also view political tension in non-Middle East states Nigeria and Venezuela as having the potential to disrupt exports and drive up world prices.\n\nLow US gasoline stocks and pressure on US refiners to increase production of new gasoline blends have also helped drive world crude oil prices."\n\n\nHope this is what you were looking for, please send me an email and I will elaborate more.
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Yes, actually it will. well, not really run out of oil but obtainable oil.  It is estimated that drillable oil reserves could be extinguished within 50 years given present usage and the estimation of future usage.
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The US exports oil, but trying to find out where that oil comes from and goes to is not as easy as I expected.\n\nThe CIA factbook: Oil - exports:\n1.048 million bbl/day (2004)
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The Energy Information Adminstration is a great resource for this.  Information can be organized and sorted many differnt way over many years.\nhttp://www.eia.doe.gov/\n\nhttp://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mg_tt_usw.htm\nIncidently, all prices are in cents.  I was confused for a minute or so until I figured that out.