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The United States imported about 58% of the petroleum, which includes crude oil and refined petroleum products, that we consumed during 2007. About half of these imports came from the Western Hemisphere. Our dependence on foreign petroleum is expected to decline in the next two decades. ... Oil Projections to 2030...
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Our dependence on foreign oil can only be limited in a significant way if we reduce our consumption of oil. (4) There is substantial room to achieve such reductions since the consumption of oil per dollar of GDP is now more than 40 percent higher in the United States than it is in Germany and France.
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www.nber.org/feldstein/oil.html
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Today, the Committee holds a hearing on Oil Diplomacy: The Facts and Myths Behind Foreign Oil Dependency. The national security of the United States depends on the reliable supply of energy to support our needs.
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Overall the United States uses 20 million barrels of oil a day, but only produces about 8 million barrels, the rest is made up with imported oil, from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, and Nigeria. Some US officials want to eliminate US dependency on foreign oil sources in the years to come.
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silver.theicecave.org/library/usoil.html
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PBDJ PowerBuilder Developer's Journal ... David S. Bennett, President and CEO of BSLM, states: "Our corporation is striving to fulfill its mission to help combat the destructive agents that pollute and harm our environment, in addition to helping America lower its dependence on foreign oil."
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The United States' growing dependence on foreign oil is widely recognized as the nation's Achilles heel, a disaster in the works. But sometimes it seems that every solution to that horrendous problem leads into a box canyon.
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Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Whiteboard presentation: T. Boone Pickens on reducing America's dependency on foreign oil:
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What precisely are the costs of U.S. foreign oil dependence? Unfortunately, no one has yet offered a satisfactory answer to this vital question. As a result, the costs to the United States of its dependence on oil from abroad have gone largely unrecognized and, in fact, are much greater than most people realize.
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www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=10579
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America spends more than $200,000 per minute on foreign oil -- $13 million per hour. More than $25 billion a year ... Passenger vehicles are the single largest driver of United States oil consumption. But thanks to legal loopholes, the average fuel economy of America's cars and trucks has been getting worse for a decade.
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www.nrdc.org/air/transportation/aoilpolicy2.asp
www.nrdc.org/air/transportation/aoilpolicy2.asp
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