Question of the US dependensy on foriegn oil?

Question

Hi,

Does anyone have a chart or factual information/stats on the United States oil dependensy in different countries.

thanks

Answer 1

We aren't dependent on foreign fuel. We're just too busy making Dick Cheney and his friends billionaires on oil that's imported to the states.

Don't you think that it a coincidence that as soon as gas prices went up to 3 bucks a gallon that we discovered a "huge oil field in the Gulf of Mexico"?

Answer 2

US consumes 20 million barrel a day. It is about 25% of total world consumption. Half of it is produced inland. Of imported oil, 17 % comes from midddle east and 23 % from Venezuala. Rest comes from friendly countries. Even middle eastern Oil comes from Saudis who are historically friendly to US. US and Canada have almost 1000 billion barrel of untapped Oil reserves which are almost equal to current whole world Oil reserve. Unless Canadian becomes Communist US has no forseeable problem of Oil supply, lets say in next 100 hundred years. Alternative fuel technologies which are not being widely public ( I am not talking about ethanol) are already in place in Pennsylvania and California and hopefully will become widely available in next 10-20 years. In future US and Canada will be the major energy technology and fuel provider, as I see it. So just calm down and vote democrates!

Answer 3

We do not have an oil dependency at all. It's a myth. Most of our American oil fields are capped off. We use foreign oil to reserve ours for the future.
When Louisiana was supposedly "went bust" and all of the people involved in oil were laid off or small businesses lost every thing it happened in one week. There was no slow closing because oil slowly ran out. The companies capped off oil wells which was producing as fast as any oil well in any country. The companies moved off sure to establish new wells and get the hard to get and get a better price.
Oil well workers told me of wells going full steam with no trouble being shut down and capped off as soon as they proved to be productive. I was living in Mississippi at he time and the beaches were full of people parked out trying to find jobs who were told they were fired because the wells were closing and were forced to cap of wells which were very productive.
I think the government had a big hand in this and continues to pay them to keep these closed today still.