Cuadro Sinóptico "Países"

Nombre del país Brasil China

Área total (geography) Total: 8, 514,877 kilómetros cuadrados

Tierra: 8.459.417 kilómetros cuadrados

Agua: 55.460 kilómetros cuadrados

Nota: incluye Archipiélago de Fernando de Noroña. Superficie total: 9, 596,961 kilómetros cuadrados

Superficie Terrestre: 9.569.901 kilómetros cuadrados

Agua (mar territorial): 27.060 kilómetros cuadrados

Población (population) 205, 716, 890 (julio 2012 est)

nota: Brasil llevó a cabo un censo en agosto de 2000, que reportó una población de 169.872.855, cifra que fue un 3,8% inferiores a las proyecciones de la Oficina del Censo de EE.UU., y está cerca del porcentaje implicado del 4,6% para el censo de 1991. 1, 343, 239, 923 (julio 2011 est)

Expectativa de vida (people) Hombres: 69,24 años

Mujeres: 76,53 años (2011 est) Hombres: 72.82 años

Mujeres: 77.11 años (2011 est)

Gente infectada de sida (people) NA 740.000 (2009 est)

Tipo de gobierno (government) República Federal Estado comunista

Porcentaje de fuerza laboral por sector (economy) Agricultura: 20%

Industria: 14%

Servicios: 66% (2003 est) Agricultura: 10,1%

1. Will drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge do anything to solve our current gasoline and heating oil supply problems and reduce prices?

In 1978 oil first flowed through the Alaska Pipeline from Prudhoe Bay, which had much larger reserves than any estimates of Arctic Refuge Oil. Not only did prices not go down, they actually DOUBLED between 1978 and 1981. In 1978 the average national price per gallon was 60 cents. In 1981 it was more than $1.20.

2. Are estimated oil supplies in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge expected to significantly change our long term energy prospects?

No. It is estimated that the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge contains no more than a six month supply of oil at our current consumption rates.

3. Given the current war against terrorism, shouldn’t we do absolutely everything we can to maximize our oil supply to be self sufficient?

No, it's not possible to be self sufficient given the amount of oil we consume as a nation. We use more oil than we could ever find domestically, even if we were to drill on all public lands, in all of our national parks and monuments, national forests, etc. The United States uses 25% to 30% of all of the oil produced in the world, yet we only have less than 3% of known oil reserves. These numbers are well known.

4. Is there evidence that increases in domestic oil supplies translate into savings at the gas pump?

No. Crude oil prices and thus the prices at the pump are determined almost solely by OPEC, the Mid-Eastern cartel that controls the majority of the world’s oil supply. Because total known U.S. reserves represent only 2.8 percent of the world’s oil and our nation uses nearly a third of the world’s production.

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