Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare

Re:Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare by munk-a on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:50PM (#18506394)

You in fact shouldn't know this as the EIA reports that 3,239,699 barrels of petroleum products were consumed in august of this year alone for electrical generation in the US (source https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T... )

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Re:Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare by hnphillipj on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:08PM (#18506502)

I'll change my comment from not -> hardly.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

While your number seems like a lot, it's really just a drop in the bucket. The US consumes close to 8 billion barrels of oil annually. I was, however, surprised that it was still as high as 0.5%.

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Re:Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare by tropo on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:55PM (#18507942)

Hawaii likes to generate power that way. Northern parts of Alaska do too.

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