i think theyre a lot of interests involved in talking about a billion dollars bsiness..and such interests are... well hidden for public eye

So basically, all of those politicians yapping about how we are getting our oil from the Middle East are lying? Shocking!

You're article state that the Deepwater Horizon's explosion "unleashed a three-month, 4.9 billion-barrel spill".

Let's do some math here. 4,900,000,000(bbls)/90 (days)= 54 million bbls/day.

Wow! We should be pissed at BP for not being able to produce this well, not be mad because they spilled it. That single well would have produced 62% of the worlds current oil production. Boy they blew it....If only there were more companies out there that could find great wells like that we could throw this whole peak oil argument out the window. Forget foreign oil! We'd have twice the United State's oil consumption coming from that one well.

Laying on sarcasm pretty thick if you couldn't tell. That number should read 4.9 million barrels of oil because that well only produced about 54k bbls a day. Let's do our math right and stop trying to over emphasize the traumatic effects that the spill had on our coastline.

Surprising that your report misses the other largest source of energy in the Americas (perhaps even bigger than any of the ones you mentioned)... Is this article naming country's resources only relative to their willingness to export to the U.S. which Venezuela does anyway so its makes no sense you would leave it... childish

Not only is it BP that are guilty of mass spills, Shell is now guily, although on a smaller scale with a pipe leak which will slowly infiltrate northern Scotland and damage the wildlife and ecostructure there, when will these companies learn that they need to take further precautions when dealing with oil, its not as if they do not make enough profits from selling it on to us the consumer at a ballooned rate, while these fatcats are getting rich, we are suffering from no pass on reductions when the oil price goes down, in Britain within the last two years petrol has risen by at leased a third, I have had to give up my seo kent lessons now because I cannot afford them.

One must keep in mind that Big Oil has not invested in increasing refining capacity... preferring to give senior management excessive bonuses Thus approximately 1/3 of refined gasoline consumed in the U.S. is imported from the Saudi refinery complex at Yanbo.

four barrels of water to refine one barrel of oil from tar sands

now there is a recipe for global peace, economic harmony and environmental bliss

"But producing oil sands is a messy, emissions-intensive business; according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the extraction process produces 82 percent more emissions than conventional oil drilling. Canadian officials and oil company executives have argued that these concerns are overstated -- and indeed, credible outside calculations have found far lower impacts..."

and follow the link—from the phrase "credible outside calculations" no less— and you find...wait for it... ... ..a Council on Foreign Relations Special Report; No. 47; May 2009; Michael A. Levi
The Canadian Oil Sands; Energy Security vs. Climate Change!

Credible?

Outside?

Calculation?...undoubtedly but not credible or outside.

all time new best for the CFR's capacity for insulting our intelligence

really folks, I mean come on...if you are going to shill for the petroleum industrial complex don't be bashful—be proud of who you are!

Foreign Policy is scraping the bottom of the trust barrel here. The general sense is that there is plenty of oil.,. but never a word about the climate all that carbon fuel is going to disrupt.

So there's lots of oil. The global climate can't handle a dump of carbon that big in that short (decades) a time. It took millions of years to extract all that carbon from the atmosphere, and we're putting it back rapidly.

Nuclear would solve the problem, but we're panicking like cockroaches when the light is turned on about Japan. Really, how many people will die per Kwh from nuclear, compared to coal, oil, gas fracking, resource wars, and pollution?

You can't answer that, so you read this garbage and think every thing's all right.

Nice article. Some really good points made about How the West Was Drilled, I agree with some of them too. Thanks for the article. Kindest regards, Mad DJ Clive

From Alberta to the Brazilian Coast, a tour of the new American oil frontier that could eclipse the Middle East. "But producing oil sands is a messy, emissions-intensive business; according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the extraction process produces 82 percent more emissions than conventional oil drilling. Canadian officials and oil company executives have argued that these concerns are overstated -- and indeed, credible outside calculations have found far lower impacts..." and follow the li tattoo designs Surprising that your report misses the other largest source of energy in the Americas (perhaps even bigger than any of the ones you mentioned)... Is this article naming country's resources only relative to their willingness to export to the U.S. which Venezuela does anyway so its makes no sense you would leave it... childish.

Just read the article. I found it very informative and agree with posts and points made above. Peter.