Federally Owned Land in Western States
1. Nevada 84.5%
2. Alaska 69.1%
3. Utah 57.4%
4. Oregon 53.1%
5. Idaho 50.2%
6. Arizona 48.1%
7. California 45.3%
8. Wyoming 42.3%
9. New Mexico 41.8%
10. Colorado 36.6%
The federal government owns 650 million acres of land – nearly 30% of the USA.
The oil and gas industry leases more than 200 million acres but produced only 53 days of oil consumption and 221 days of natural gas in the last 15 years.
Of the 229 million acres offered for oil and gas development, only 30 million or 13 percent, have ever produced oil or gas.
George Bush has lifted rules on another 45 million acres, [link], but as quoted in previous post, “If these oil companies had fantastic projects, they’d be out there….”