How much oil do people use around the world every year?
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Myself I use 1000 barrels a year and that's just in my hair.
1123322
Yes.\n\nThe largest reserves are found in the Middle East.  Saudi Arabia has the larges proved oil reserves at 160 billion barrels.  The other Persian Gulf countries of Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait also have some of the largest reserves in the world.  \n\nThe United States originally had a fairly large endowment of oil, much of which was located in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Alaska.  However, the U.S. has already consumed about 2/3 of this original amount making it the largest cumulative producer of oil.  \n\nThe western nations of Venezuela and Mexico also have substantial oil reserves.  In Europe, Russia has the largest oil reserves at 49 billion barrels.  Much of this is located around the Caspian Sea.  The United Kingdom also holds large reserves in the North Sea off the shore of Great Britain.  Other African countries such as Nigeria, Libya, and Algeria also have small amounts of oil reserves.
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Quite simply NO that is not true.  There is plenty of oil and gas left.  Enough to last your lifetime and probably most of your kids lifetime.  However, the rate at which countries like China and India and other emerging economies are growing there is going to a strain on current levels of production.  This is why there is a huge amount of activity in the exploration and drilling sector right now, we see this future demand and are working to compensate.  However there are countries like the USA and Britian that consume much more than they produce, and the majority of their fields are depleted or on the down hill slope.  This is why they must forge alliances, you didn't think they fight these wars just in the name of freedom, but that's another question.  This is also why Bush has given the go ahead to drill in Alaska.  We know where almost all the oil and gas is, now it's just a matter of getting it out of the ground.  But we don't want to flood the market, because then everyone will think they can use as much as they want.  Then there is the politics, pipelines,environment,etc.  It's a delicate balance.  Any way, Saudi Arabia is the largest producer of hydrocarbons and still has the largest reserves.  Canada has the second largest reserves, but it is hard to produce because it is mostly tar sands.  Iran is third(friendly with China), Kuwait is fourth, Iraq is fifth(soon to be friendly with USA) others among top ten Nigeria, Venesuala, and others I remember off the top of my head.  In the future alternative fuels will have to be researched and put into common use.  Some of these we see already, such as hybrid cars, fuel cells, corn oil,processed fish fat can burn in diesel engines.  Nuclear fuel will be used for everyday power, solar power is not practical, takes up to much room, wind power is only practical on a small scale, and they need to be where it's windy, and since you lose power when it travels down lines, only windy places can utilize wind turbines.  My personal favorite is hyrogen power.  Although to volitile with current technology, it is abundant, powerful, and emission free.  By product is pure water.  All these will come to be as future governments covet what's left of the natural resources and we think about the environment a little more.  But there will be oil and gas to heat your homes and run your cars for many years to come.  So long as you got the money to fill the tank.
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None we keep all our oil just in case.
6569
we only have 1,000 billion of reserves that at 77 million/day, suggests there could only be some 36 years of production remaining.  There are still substantial reserves of gas and coal but the age of cheap tranportation driven by cheap oil are numbered!!!
664578
Convince the usa government that theres vast amounts of oil to be had
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The global economy is heading into a period called PEAK OIL. This means that we've reached the halfway point in terms of oil production. While there is still roughly 1 trillion barrels of oil left we will enter a period of declining returns. This means that once we reach the peak (nowish, 2010 at the longest) the world will pump out steadily less and less oil every year. This is catastrophic and will shake the foundations of our economy. We need approx 86million B of oil per day. This number gets higher and higher every year as the global economy expands, particularly with the white hot growth and demand from China and India. Pruduction will fall and demand will go up. Prices will skyrocket and there will be shortfalls as the gap widens between the oil available and demand for it. We have already seen the price of oil skyrocket from the low teens a few years back to close to 80. Its happening.\n\nWho will get the oil? The US reached their peak way back in 1970 and have steadily declined since. Now they are importing oil at increasing rates. They are aware of peak oil and need to secure sources for the future. They've done this by force. They are currently building massive military bases in the 2 best areas for oil reserves. (Approx 14 permanent massive bases in Iraq)The middle east, and Afghanistan which is on the doorstep of central asia where massive reserves are located. \n\nThis is why Iraq and Afghanistan were invaded. The US will be able to determine who gets whats left of the most valuable resource on the planet as oil reserves hit a steady decline. The rest is smoke and mirrors.\n\n-could the person that gave me a thumb down. Please post an intelligent rebuttal rather than a thumb down. I'm am shocked at how any educated person could have read what I wrote, then briefly pause in thought before clicking on 'thumb down?!?'
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In February, the United States imported 277,104,000 barrels of crude oil.\n\nBelow is a current list of the top 15 countries that we import crude oil from, along with the number of barrels per day:\n\nFebruary 2006 Oil Imports\n----------------------------\nMEXICO:  1,774,000 \nCANADA:  1,700,000\nSAUDI ARABIA:  1,418,000\nNIGERIA:  1,342,000 \nVENEZUELA:  1,175,000\nANGOLA:  464,000 \nIRAQ:  444,000 \nECUADOR:  222,000 \nBRAZIL:  164,000 \nALGERIA:  163,000
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No. I think it affects the whole world. Oil is a global necessity.
371986
The entire world plus animals\n6.5 billion people. Noobs are so high maintanence
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We are importing about half of what we use now. If you would like to choose which half of our nation cannot use oil, then we could quit importing.\n\nIt isn't a matter of how much oil is in the ground. We can't produce it fast enough, or refine it fast enough to more than marginally outpace demand.
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Society and the economy demand a steady supply of oil.  I know on no one who has pulled the main circuit breaker of their home or thrown away the keys to their car(s), especially gas guzzlers whether they are liberal or conservative.  It is our problem.  Whoever owns the oil should profit by its sale, but oil need not become a geopolitical football.\n\nThe real question is whether oil will be used to fuel the world or to fuel terrorism.  The fuel problem is only temporary.  We need to capture perhaps 1% of 1% of the sun's solar energy to meet all our needs.  Technology is rapidly improving.  Soon there will be available relatively cheap plastic foil photovoltaic cells to convert solar energy to electrical energy.  The technology already exists.  The roofs of most buildings will be covered with them.  Then we will still need a little oil to lubricate our bikes and hedge clippers.  The problem is to obtain and maintain world peace until then.  And that may be a decade or two.
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Absolutely.  There is plenty of oil, enough to last for 100's of years.  Actually if you look at it logically, we will never really run out of oil.  Supplies will dwindle, we will tap into other sources, like oil shale, and oil sand, but the production cots will go up.  Eventually we will get to a point, where the cost is high enough, to make alternative energy sources, profitable.  Once that happens, competition and the free market system will find a cheap efficient substitute, and we will leave oil usage to the third world.
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Let's see:\n\nSuppose everyone that changes their oil does so every 3000 miles, and let's say that the average driver drives 12,000 miles a year. That's 4 oil changes per year, at 5 quarts each change, equals 20 quarts a year. So let's guess that only 2 million of us change our oil at all.\n\nI'd estimate about 40 million quarts a year!
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The primary fossil fuel is coal-Including the oil sands, crude oil is next, then natural gas.\nEstimate coal is about 1 trillion tons, which is about 30 X 10^21 joules 30,000 exajoules of power.  This is estimated to be enough for at least a century, and perhaps more.\nEstimated oil is about 1 trillion barrels, which is about  or 6500 exajoules of power-this will start getting pretty tight in the next 20-50 years\nEstimated natural gas is 150 trillion cubic meters, or about 6000 exajoules-this is the hardest to estimate, since not as much work has gone into finding natural gas fields-this will be increasingly more important as a replacement for oil, but is more expensive to transport and store.  If the low estimate given is correct, it should last sometime beyond 50 years.\n\nSo, those of us sitting here are probably ok- It's our kids and grandkids that are set for some serious problems, unless we figure out some new sources for them.  Humans generally have a decent record in planning ahead-with some dramatic exceptions, but nothing on the scale of dealing with the two big problems- Global weather changes and depletion of energy sources.
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Oil prices will never stop going up because we are running out of it. It goes up by about 2.6% each year.
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Oil is the world's most important commodity. Without oil, today's industrial society would simply be impossible. Oil and natural gas are the fuel for the engine of modern capitalism, with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations accounting for two-thirds of all oil consumed in the world.\n\nOil and gas are not only the source of 62 percent of the energy used in the world, they are integrated into the production of many goods and products that we take for granted. But just as important, every tank, every airplane-from the B-52 to the stealth bomber-every cruise missile, and most war ships in the U.S. or any other nation's military arsenal, rely on oil to wage their terror. In fact, the U.S. Department of Defense is the consumer of over 80 percent of all the energy used by the U.S. government.\n\nTake a look at this site...I think it does a GREAT job of spelling out the politics of oil...