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sammy2 - if it is your hobby then you surely know that oil has a global market. that oil (if found - and you surely know there is a difference between reserves & proven reserves) then it will go onto the global market, not just to the US.

so.... the correct comparison is not to us usage is it?

or are you proposing that we nationalize the oil companies or something?

even if found, restricted to the US and burned - all it will do is make global warming worse. There is NO debate that increased CO2 increases global warming - there is a small amount of debate as to whether the human caused impact is the largest or is a rel. small impact. That is the only debate.

I mean debate among scientists who study this area. Getting a tv weatherman to sign a petition does NOT count (yes, the anti-reality of glbal warming crowd did do that).