How much oil do we have in reserves and how long would it last?

Why couldn't we use the oil in our reserve while finding alternatives for oil, also, to lower the usuage of gas, I would be will to go on gas rationing as lone as my husband had enough to get to work. I just wonder how much oil we would say and people stayed home one day a week. As it is now, we can barely afford gas and we are so called middle class going down quickly to lower glass. You have people like my daughter and brother that barely make enough to live on. They can't afford the gas prices. I think the government could do a lot but they are too crooked and don't want to give up the money everyone is making. We as a nation have stood by far too long on too many issuses., Gas, illegal aliens, child abuse. We can no longer be silentHow much oil do we have in reserves and how long would it last?
Our oil reserves are for emergency only. And they wouldn't last long at all anyway. So, to use them really wouldn't do anyone any good.





I have already cut my gas consumption by about half or more. I just don't go places anymore unless I need to and then I try to bundle my errands or trips. I think a lot of people are doing this too.





The way things work though make it impossible to find alternative energy sources until gas prices make it worthwhile to use other sources of energy. It will indeed make some middle class people become lower class. But we put ourselves into this situation in several ways. One way is because we decided to buy cheaper things that are made in China. Now China has a growing middle class, and they too want nicer things in life, such as cars, plumbing, electricity. So, China is using up a lot more oil than it used to. And China has about 4 times as many people as we do. India is coming along in the same way too. And their population is somewhere around 3 times ours, I think.





We will now be having to share more of the earth's oil and other natural resouces with the rest of the world. We currently use 25% of it. Yet our population is only about 5% of the world's population. (my figures aren't perfect, but are close enough for my point). We are going to have to be happy with less than 25% of it, or go to war to get it. And Bush is already doing that for us. Though this is not a wise action.





What we should have been doing for years is what Germany and some other northern European countries have been doing is using more and more solar power. There's plenty of sun to go around everywhere and it's abundant, and won't give out for at least another million or so years.How much oil do we have in reserves and how long would it last?
ITS OLDUVAI CLIFF MAN, OLDUVAI CLIFF. GET PREPARED, MY POWER'S SHORTING OUT ALREADY.
Its funny that you say your daughter %26amp; brother can barely make enough to live on, but did you know that 60% of the world lives on less 2 dollars per day?





Im sure there are 4 billion people out there that would love to trade places with them. People who are wondering where their next meal is coming from and dont have the ';luxury'; of worrying about gas prices because they could never even afford a cheap broken down car even if they saved their money for years. People who dont even have electricity in their homes and people that have to go walk a mile to get water from the community well.





People who live in this country do not have a rough life. We've just been spoiled for so long we are crying now that our toys are not as obtainable. Kind of like the spoiled rich kid that cries because he only got a 100k dollar porche for his 16th b-day and he wanted a 300k dollar ferrari. We definately see how spoiled he is because we are poorer than him. But we cant see it in ourselves because most of us have never seen real poverty.





I mean even homeless people in the U.S. make at least 20 bucks per day recylcing cans from digging thru trash cans. thats 10 times more than 60% of the rest of the world.