1. What is ANWR? How does it compare to the total area of the National Petroleum Preserve on the North Slope of Alaska? What are the objections to drilling there?

2. What are the three major fossil fuels?

Why are they considered non-renewable?

How much of US energy do they supply?

3. The Middle East contains what % of the world’s proven oil reserves?

Which single country has the most oil?

Which country has the most natural gas?

Which country has the most coal?

4. How does the US use of the world’s energy compare to our population size?

5. What is met by Net Energy, with respect to primary energy sources?

6. What is EROI? How has the EROI for petroleum changed in the last 60-70 years?

7. What are the Pros and Cons of using coal as an energy source?

8.What is coal mostly used for today?

9. Which two countries are the top producers and users of coal?

10. What is natural gas?  What are the Pros and Cons of using natural gas as an energy source?

11. Which two countries are the top producers and consumers of natural gas?

12. What are the major uses natural gas?

13. Why is oil (petroleum) so important in today’s economy?  Know the 3 reasons I give in class.

14. How much oil does the US import?  Which two countries are our biggest suppliers?

15. Which two countries produce the most oil?  Which two countries consume the most?

16. The recoverable oil in the ANWR would last how long, at the current rate of US consumption?

17. At current levels of production and consumption, how long will known oil reserves last?

18. What is “Hubbert’s Peak”?

19. The overall supply and price of oil at any place and time is constrained by 3 factors-what are they?

20. What are oil sands? Where are they being mined? What are the consequences?

21. The US has oil shale. Why is it unlikely to be used in large amounts in the foreseeable future?

22. What is the EROI for these alternative fossil fuels, and how does it compare to oil?

23. How does Conservation fit into the Energy debate?

24. What is nuclear power? What is it used for?

25. How many nuclear power plants are there in the US?                      The world?

25. What % of US electricity comes from nuclear power?  

What countries get a greater % of electricity form Nuclear power than the US?

26. What does enrichment mean?

27. What are the Pros and Cons of nuclear power?

Why are some former opponents, including environmentalists, now supporting it?

28. Where is Three Mile Island and what happened there?

29. Where is Chernobyl, and what happened there?

30. Where is high level nuclear waste stored in the US?

31. Where and what is Yucca Mountain? When is it supposed to open?