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Do you remember the alaskan pipeline Roco. Where do you think that oil is going? Not here. Its going to Russia and China. Go figure that S#!t out. We are paying this price, and yet we are exporting boatloads of the crap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System

And several spots that they  do not want to destroy nature to get to.

Lets see my math comes to 15billion barrels at @200 a barrel which translates into about $3 trillion to where did the money go again? 

LOL bro thanks for the head up on the Alaskan pipe line , I had never heard of it,
sure is a interesting thought , the oil goes to Russia , the UK buys some of it's oil from Russia ,  , maybe we can let you have some back !!,

just been checking some figs.

 in the United States, something like 178 million gallons of gasoline is consumed every day.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_oil_does_the_US_consume

that pipeline has shifted enough oil to keep America in petrol for around 3 months
I may be wrong on the math , I had to take my shoes off to come up with that calculation

lol over here with the $10 USD a gallon , I use about  5 a week , works out at about 225 miles
although this is falling ,as I get free bus and train in london, it's got to be the way to go ,if you don't need to carry much,

just for clarification, how many liters does your "gallon" have? you use the larger imperial ones, no?

puerto rico uses liters for gas, us meaurements for most other things, km for distance on roads and miles for speed limits.

lol the American term gas for petrol beats me , so what does your gas cooker burn ?

The UK is heading for costly trouble with the 2012 Olympics comming up ,
we us kilograms for weight ,litres for liquids our road signs are in imperial miles ,
all cars now have dual read speedometers , apart from my old Citroen thats in Kilometres , or curency is in the £, but some years back the pennies to the £ got changed to 100 , causing a substantial price rise at the time ,
petrol now £1.10-£1.24 per litre , and the only way is up IMHO
deisel $1.20 -£1.30 per litre (extra tax on that )

After the Norman Conquest in 1066, the pound was divided into twenty shillings or 240 pennies. It remained so until decimalization on 15 February 1971.

And uh.... whatza  gas burner there?

so what withs the  " so not true" , (it wasn't meant to be funny )  it has allways been known that the worlds oil would not last forever, but nobody did much about it just built bigger faster and heavier auto's , and buried their head in the sand hopping it would all go away ,
"The US government said Canada holds the world's second-largest oil reserves, taking into account Alberta oil sands previously considered too expensive to develop.
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/ntn32355.htm


Country Reserves 1 Production 2 Reserve life 3
 
Saudi Arabia 260             8.8                        81
Canada         179               2.7                      182
Iraq                 15                3.7                     101
Iran                105               2.2                     143
Kuwait           99                 2.5                     108
United Arab Emirates 97 2.5                       107
Venezuela      80              2.4                        91
Russia            60               9.5                         17
Libya             41.               5 1.8                      63
Nigeria          36.2             2.3                         43
United States 21              4.9                          2
Mexico           12               3.2                         10

these figs are at todays consumption rates, and that is set to quadruple in the next 10 years
Oil is now a world wide comodity , and there are some fast growing big economies who are willing to pay the inflated price ,
BTW there is one Chinese for one of every other race on this planet , and they all wan't to drive fine cars , like the rest of the folk ,