Japanese Supermen Save The World!
 

Basically, buying Japanese cars.

Originally posted by DaShi

So what has your country been doing for the past 20 or so years? Jack Cheese. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

Honestly we were on a good track for energy efficiency in the 70's and early 80's but then energy became cheap again and we stopped even pretending to care. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/redface.gif

Originally posted by DaShi

So what has your country been doing for the past 20 or so years? Dramatically increasing our energy use, thus benefiting our economy. http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

Russian daily output 8.4 million barrals, US output 7.2 million barrels, or about a 15% difference in output. It seems the only reason people talk about Russia oil output so much and not US oil output is because consumption is so low in Russia that they're able to export much of that oil while the US is a net importer.

Japan could have stopped that too, if other people didn't get involved. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/neeschud.gif

55 is pathetic for a speed limit.

I thought you rode a bike everywhere

Originally posted by Oerdin
Russian daily output 8.4 million barrals, US output 7.2 million barrels, or about a 15% difference in output. It seems the only reason people talk about Russia oil output so much and not US oil output is because consumption is so low in Russia that they're able to export much of that oil while the US is a net importer. Yup, and we also have huge output of natural gas.

Originally posted by Oerdin
Russian daily output 8.4 million barrals, US output 7.2 million barrels, or about a 15% difference in output. It seems the only reason people talk about Russia oil output so much and not US oil output is because consumption is so low in Russia that they're able to export much of that oil while the US is a net importer. (And Russia's reserves are far higher and production just hasn't ramped up yet. You left that part out.)

The US output is declining as well.

For sure, but that is not really what Oerdin was saying.

Anyway, Russia is mostly natural gas, not oil. It's got a little over twice as much oil as the US in proved currently economical reserves. The figure for natural gas is about eight-fold; Russia has 25% of the world's natural gas reserves.

Originally posted by Oerdin
Russian daily output 8.4 million barrals, US output 7.2 million barrels, or about a 15% difference in output. It seems the only reason people talk about Russia oil output so much and not US oil output is because consumption is so low in Russia that they're able to export much of that oil while the US is a net importer. What year are those stats and from who? Stats that I have for 2007 from BP are 9.978 for Russia and 6.879 for the US. A 43% difference.

Russia's production has also been increasing every year on year since 1998.