NotPetroleum Blog

Today, we used 21 million barrels of oil in the US.  Actually, we do this every day.  That accounts for 25% of global production.  We import 13 million barrels of oil per day of which  5 million barrels come from OPEC.  Much of that 5 million barrels comes from the Middle East. T. Boone Pickens [...]

Tonight, I watched the Imax movie, Arabia, at the Fernbank Museum and enjoyed the history lesson in the Two Golden Ages of Arabia.  The first was led by the Nabataean culture and the natural resource that created their empire was frankincense and other spices.  The Roman Empire’s polytheistic worship drove the insatiable demand for the [...]