pstarr wrote:Carl's numbers come via the "The Institute for Energy Research", a shill for the dirty energy bidness.
They are not my number's and they don't come from the IER.
The bulleted facts have reference numbers from other sources (in the original pdf document).
1 Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, Table 4.1, http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec4_3.
2 BP, Statistical Review of Energy 2011, p. 22, http://www.bp.com/assets/bp_internet/gl ... k_english/
reports_and_publications/statistical_energy_review_2011/STAGING/local_assets/pdf/statistical_review_of_world_energy_full_
report_2011.pdf.
3 Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, Table 3.1, http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec3_3.
4 Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics: Crude Oil Proved Reserves, http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/cfapps/
ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=5&pid=57&aid=6&cid=regions&syid=1980&eyid=2010&unit=BB.
5 Task Force on Strategic Unconventional Fuels, Development of America’s Strategic Unconventional Fuels Resources—Initial
Report to the President and the Congress of the United States (Sept. 2006), p. 5, http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/
reserves/npr/publications/sec369h_report_epact.pdf; US Geological Survey, Oil Shale and Nahcolite Resources of the Piceance
Basin, Colorado p. 1, Oct. 2010, http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-y/. The Task Force on Strategic Unconventional
Fuels estimated that U.S. oil shale resources were 2.1 trillion barrels. In 2010, the USGS estimated that in-place resources in
the Piceance Basin were 50 percent larger than previously estimated (1.5 trillion barrels versus 1.0 trillion barrels). The addition
of these 0.5 trillion barrels makes U.S. in-place oil shale resources a total of 2.6 trillion barrels. Previous estimates put the total
economically recoverable oil shale resources at 800 billion barrels. Assuming the same rate of recovery for these additional 0.5
trillion barrels brings the total recoverable resources to 982 billion barrels of oil resources.
6 Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics, http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.
cfm?tid=1&pid=7&aid=6
7 Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics-Coal-Production, http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/
iedindex3.cfm?tid=1&pid=7&aid=1&cid=regions&syid=2000&eyid=2010&unit=TST.
8 Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 2010, Table 4.11, http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/
sec4_23.pdf a U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Coal Geology, Resources, and Coalbed Methane Potential, Nov. 2005, http://
pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-077/.
9 See Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Offshore Energy and Minerals Management,
http://www.boemre.gov/offshore/. According to the administration’s website, the outer continental shelf is 1.76 billion
acres (http://www.boemre.gov/ld/PDFs/GreenBook ... cument.pdf page 1) and only 38 million acres are leased
(Department of Interior, Oil and Gas Lease Utilization – Onshore and Offshore, http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.
cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=239255 page 4). That is a mere 2.16% of the entire Outer Continental Shelf.
10 According to the Department of Interior, 38 million acres of onshore lands are leased for oil and natural gas production. See Table
etc.