[Reply]The current strategic reserve has enough oil to meet the current energy needs of the United States with NO additional production for 2 months.
We can foresee problems that last longer than six months.
Another thing about the oil here stateside is that we have it but it's still moire expensive than what we can get from other places. They can produce it and ship it to us much less expensively. When oil gets more expensive then it becomes economically more feasible to go after shale oil and coal oil, etc. Biofuel is still more expensive but as the price of oil eases up biofuel becomes more competitive. Production will ramp up and it'll become less expensive. Oil then becomes less expensive as demand drops because more demand is made for biofuel.
Eventually, fossil fuels will likely go as whale oil did. Whale oil was a market that was destroyed not by "Save the Whales" organizations but by petroleum. Petroleum was considered ersatz at the beginning. Just like biofuel is considered ersatz by many today. It doesn't mean biofuel will do everything petroleum could do - Moby Dick would not have been written about oil drillers.
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I said that the military has sufficient reserves (refined, crude, and in the ground) to deal with any foreseeable contingency. I did not say that these reserves were infinite, they are not.
The current strategic reserve has enough oil to meet the current energy needs of the United States with NO additional production for 2 months. Much longer if we supplement that with domestic production and yes, Gasp! conservation. I agree with you that there is a distinction to be made between our strategic military and economic needs and Al Gore's crackpot get rich scheme.
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