energy examples

• 9.3 million barrels per day of oil are extracted from Saudi Arabia
• 3.3 million barrels a day are extracted from the Athabaskan tar sands
• 550,000 barrels of oil a day are transported through the Keystone pipeline. the XL would have upped it to 850,000
• 180,000 barrels per day: willow project at max output.
• the great crosscourse is a seam of igneous rock with potential for geothermal energy. (located close to the Eden project)
• $54 billion contributed to the Canadian economy by the tar sands
• 2 million acres of forest destroyed to facilitate the tar sands
• 5:1 the ERI of the tar sands
• 25:1 ERI of conventional oil
• 8.3 million barrels of oil a day are imported to the USA
• 80% of global oil reserves controlled by OPEC
• 52% of USA oil imported from Canada