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Thanks NJ5. That is useful information. What it means is we have an estimated 20 years of oil under us. For other reasons we can't get it fast enough, and that should be what politicians say.

I am very much for alternative fuels (I like biodiesel for cars), but not extracting as much oil as we can seems strange. What's the downside to going after those 155 billion barrels?