As of 2026, the U.S. has about 46.4 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves, with average 13.6 million barrels per day production. The Permian Basin accounts for 6.6 million barrels per day.

If you do the math, that's enough proven oil reserves at that output rate to last for 3,412 days. That's only 9.3 years (or until 2035) and then we're done.

If you assume that we can only extract up to 2/3rds of our proven oil reserves before hitting serious declines... we'll be there in 6-years, by 2032 at this rate.

I don't know what we're trying to prove by being the world's crude oil supplier. At our current extraction rate, the U.S. won't be able to supply our own oil in 10-years... unless the U.S. acquires part of Western Canada and Venezuela.

The world's top nations for oil reserves are;

Venezuela: 303.2 billion barrels

Saudi Arabia: 267.2 billion barrels

Iran: 208.6 billion barrels

Canada: 170 billion barrels

Iraq: 145 billion barrels

United Arab Emirates: 113 billion barrels

Kuwait: 101.5 billion barrels

Russia: 80 billion barrels

Libya: 48.4 billion barrels

United States: 46 billion barrels