A2: Domestic Oil Solves Domestic oil can’t keep up with demand – we’d run out in 4 years Beddor et al, Center for American Progress National Security Intern, ’09 (Christopher, Winny Chen is a Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress, Rudy deLeon is the Senior Vice President of National Security and International Policy at Center for American Progress, Shiyong Park is an intern with the National Security team at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at American Progress, Center for American Progress, August 2009, Center for American Progress, “Securing America’s Future: Enhancing Our National Security by Reducing Oil Dependence and Environmental Damage,” http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/08/pdf/energy_security.pdf, pg. 3, accessed 6-29-12, CNM) Even with a slowdown in U.S. consumption domestic oil pro- duction cannot keep over the last several months, up with demand. U.S. oil production has steadily declined since the mid-1980s, the United States and today has a consumption rate of over 5 billion barrels per year, while production hovers at only 1.8 billion barrels.6 The “drill, baby, drill” crowd believes that the United States can reduce its use of imported oil by vigorously developing domestic oil The amount of oil in proven U.S. reserves—reserves reserves. Unfortunately, this sloganeering doesn’t hold up to the facts. that steadily deceased since the late 1970s from 31.8 the United States is fairly certain it can extract oil from in the future—has billion barrels in 1977 to 21 billion barrels in 2007.7 This means even if we drilled and produced all the U.S. oil reserves it would be exhausted in only about four years if consumption remains constant.
A2: Domestic Oil Solves Domestic oil can’t keep up with demand – we’d run out in 4 years Beddor et al, Center for American Progress National Security Intern, ’09 (Christopher, Winny Chen is a Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress, Rudy deLeon is the Senior Vice President of National Security and International Policy at Center for American Progress, Shiyong Park is an intern with the National Security team at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at American Progress, Center for American Progress, August 2009, Center for American Progress, “Securing America’s Future: Enhancing Our National Security by Reducing Oil Dependence and Environmental Damage,” http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/08/pdf/energy_security.pdf, pg. 3, accessed 6-29-12, CNM) Even with a slowdown in U.S. consumption over the last several months, domestic oil pro- duction cannot keep up with demand. U.S. oil production has steadily declined since the mid-1980s, and today the United States has a consumption rate of over 5 billion barrels per year, while production hovers at only 1.8 billion barrels.6 The “drill, baby, drill” crowd believes that the United States can reduce its use of imported oil by vigorously developing domestic oil reserves. Unfortunately, this sloganeering doesn’t hold up to the facts. The amount of oil in proven U.S. reserves—reserves that the United States is fairly certain it can extract oil from in the future—has steadily deceased since the late 1970s from 31.8 billion barrels in 1977 to 21 billion barrels in 2007.7 This means even if we drilled and produced all the U.S. oil reserves it would be exhausted in only about four years if consumption remains constant.
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