Ball's in your court

After years of energy policy neglect by multiple administrations one of GW's last dying gasps is "Now the ball is squarely in Congress' court." It does make you wonder what the situation would be now if this much needed action had been taken eight years ago. The US Department of Interior estimates that there are 115 billion (yes, that's a B) barrels of potential oil reserves in these areas.


Now I know that may not seem like much to the Democrats but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that at the current US consumption rate of 20.7 million barrels a day, those reserves would power the US for 5,560 days. As Rush says "for those of you in Rio Linda" that's around 15 years.

I'm not saying we wouldn't have a problem now...

I'm Just Saying - there's a possibility that it would not be as bad.