More Drilling in America Issue is Silly

[Zucas]

TheRealMafoo said:

Zucas said:

TheRealMafoo- shouldn't have needed that anyways. Anyone should be able to tell from statistics that there is a serious issue with 25% of consumption and only 2% of the world's oil reserves. But I guess concrete data helps those that need it. Point being Oil is not America's future. It just can't be given this.

I am going to make these numbers up (and grossly exaggerate them), to illustrate how these numbers don't mean anything on there own.

if 2% of the worlds oil reserves are 500,000,000,000 barrels, and 25% of the worlds oil use was 50 barrels, would we have a problem?

We need to know the absolute values of each of those percentages for the statistic to matter.

 

Yes but I would hope one would not be ignorant enough to even suggest that anyways as that would simply be laughable.  Actually I'm laughing right now that this is what begged you to question this anyways.  Silly goose.