United States Awash In Oil Reserves

Barack Hussein Obama keeps repeated the tired old lie that America has only 2% of the world's oil reserves. We actually have 60 times as much oil as he claims. 

When you include oil shale, the U.S. has 1.4 trillion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to the Institute for Energy Research, enough to meet all U.S. oil needs for about the next 200 years, without any imports.

And even this number could be low, since such estimates tend to go up over time.

Back in 1995, for example, the USGS figured there were 151 million barrels of oil in North Dakota's Bakken formation. In 2008, it upped that estimate to 3 billion barrels to 4.3 billion barrels — a 25-fold increase. Now, some oil analysts say there could be as much as 20 billion barrels there.

And USGS in 2002 quadrupled its oil estimate in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve.

Of course, surplus oil would make us less dependent upon government. And without government dependency, there would be no such thing as Democrats.