<p>Yea whatever. Still wrong. Iraq was # 5 in 2002.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia: 16.9%
Mexico: 15.1%
Canada: 15.0%
Venezuela: 14.4%
Iraq: 11.4%
Nigeria: 5.9.% </p>
<p>in January 2002</p>
<p>Peak calculations are garbage. Oil has been peaking for years, according to environmental fear mongers. Its no new story.</p>
<p>Oh here is something better. Iraqi oil is nickel and dime when you see the bigger picture..</p>
<p>World crude oil production by country in 2001 (barrels daily) </p>
<ol>
<li>Saudi Arabia - 8,768,000 </li>
<li>USA - 7,717,000 </li>
<li>Russian Federation - 7,056,000</li>
<li>Iran - 3,688,000 </li>
<li>Mexico - 3,560,000 </li>
<li>Venezuela - 3,418,000</li>
<li>Norway - 3,414,000</li>
<li>China - 3,308,000</li>
<li>United Kingdom - 2,503,000
10.Iraq - 2,414,000</li>
<li>United Arab Emirates - 2,422,000 </li>
<li>Nigeria - 2,148,000 </li>
<li>Kuwait - 2,142,000</li>
<li>Libya - 1,425,000 </li>
<li>Indonesia - 1,410,000</li>
</ol>
<p>Did I not just state that the war isnt for the oil that is being produced, but what CAN BE produced. Only 2,300 wells have been made in Iraq and only 21 oil fields have been developped. There is MASSIVE amounts of oil still in the ground in comparison to other oil producers.</p>
<p>yea im sure that you know more about petroleum than geologists! ill take the scientist over the 17 year old kid.</p>
<p>Ok bud whatever soothes your ego. Considering that Iran, Canada, and Venezuela have larger deposits (including non conventional-like Athabasca), your so called point has been duly demolished.</p>
<p>Bush? Where the hell do I start? If I could just pimpslap the man for every anti-woman, anti-choice, anti-LGBT, warmongering, cronyist, corporate-slave stance he's taken...
Seriously, I'd love to see him dead.</p>
<p>How has it been dulled? I proved how much oil Iraq still has in the ground and why that is much more important than those countries that are already pumping oil out. Your argument makes no sense.</p>
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<p>Agreed. (10char)</p>
<p>Bob you are either not reading right, or you still want to believe. Venezuela, Iran, Canada and more reserves (I know numbers are not important to a liberal, but bear with me). Out of those two, Venezuela and Iran could easily be made into targets. Hence, if you are looking for future deposits, why attack Iraq instead of the other two? Peak oil is still a joke since it lacks hard evidence and has been inaccurate historically.</p>
<p>Greatest oil reserves (estimated with reasonable certainty to be discovered with present technology and with oil at predicted prices), 2005. Source: US government</p>
<ol>
<li>Saudi Arabia - 262 proven billion barrels of oil</li>
<li>Canada - 179</li>
<li>Iran - 126</li>
<li>Iraq - 115</li>
<li>Kuwait - 102</li>
<li>UAE - 98</li>
<li>Venezuela - 78</li>
<li>Russia - 60</li>
<li>Libya - 39</li>
<li>Nigeria - 35</li>
</ol>
<p>Venezuela does not have more reserves by any estimate. It's not even close. The reason that Iraq was attacked over Iran was because that Saddam was viewed by the world to pose a greater threat to the world than the Ayatollah at the time (this was, of course, before Ahmadinejad was 'elected' and it became apparent just how dangerous Iran was). The extra reasons to go into Iraq more than made up for the 11b oil barrel difference. Also, it doesn't really matter which specific country the US invaded, as we now have a foothold in the region where so much oil (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Kuwait etc) is produced to allow for possible influence in the future. </p>
<p>You are either naive or extremely partisan if you believe that the invasion had nothing to do with oil.</p>
<p>And keep in mind that Canada's oil is locked up being mixed in with sand fields that make it VERY expensive to extract.</p>
<p>So yea, pretty much Iraq has the highest total of oil in an unstable area in 2003.</p>
<p>I think I should start double coding my messages so that my religious right conservatives know that Im a God fearing person!</p>
<p>The problem with Canadian reserves is that they are primarily shale and heavy oil...too expensive to develop/produce. Venezuela also has signficant heavy oil reserves. On the other hand, Iraq has tremendous amounts of easily produced light oil.</p>
<p>(sorry bob...missed your post, so I'm repeating your point.)</p>