Finals and such

So finals have sort of kept me from posting much this week. I could of sworn study week was fun last year- this year I've just been super stressed. I've spent most of my time writing this research paper about oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. I guess I can't complain too much since I picked the topic. So now I've killed two birds with one stone- milked a blog post out of a required research paper. Anyways, here's a excerpt:

Based on “The Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government”, the United States imports just over 10 million barrels of crude oil per day. At this rate of consumption, the entire crude oil supply of the 1002 area (the proposed drilling area) in the ANWR could be consumed by the United States in a period of between 425 and 1,180 days (assuming reservoir probabilistic values of 95% and 5%, respectively)...Alaskan reserves as of December 31, 2005 were 4.17 billion barrels of crude oil. If the 1002 ANWR area predicted reserves were added to these known Alaskan reserves, shifting U.S. imported oil to Alaskan production would last between 842 and 1,597 days.

Just goes to show how dependent we really are on foreign oil- pretty frightening.