funny reserves
okay so we've been here before. but i guess everything old is new again. sigh. okay. does the us really have more oil reserves than either saudia arabia or russia? like most questions asked on the internet, the answer is no. unless you count shale oil. the term shale oil is misleading. it sure sounds like it should count as oil, doesn't it? of course it does. if it didn't, nobody would count it. shale oil is a black rock (like coal). you dig it out of the ground with shovels (like coal). you ship it in dump trunks (like coal). you burn it in a furnace (like coal). you can turn it into gasoline using the fischer tropsch process (like coal). there are other processes with different names but are pretty much the same thing the nazis used in ww2. so... you tell me? should shale "oil" count as oil? cause if coal counts as oil then the fact that we're slightly ahead of saudi arabia and russia is irrelevant. cause china has so much more coal than everyone else put together. us bragging about having more coal than someone else has oil is kinda dumb.