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The United States consumes approximately 20 million barrels of oil per day. According to the USGS estimate, for how many days would the technically recoverable oil resource in ANWR supply the total United States demand for oil?

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520 Days

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the USGS estimate, oil resources in ANWR are an average of 10.4 billion barrels. So if US consumes 20 million barrels a day then 10.4 billion barrels will be consumed in 520 days or 1.424 years...

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