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Energy Security and Oil Dependence: Recommendations on Policies and Funding to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, Special Hearing,
LC Number: KF26 .A6469 2007 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)192174910 Subject: Petroleum industry and trade -- Government policy -- United States. Excerpt: .. ...Show synopsisLC Number: KF26 .A6469 2007 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)192174910 Subject: Petroleum industry and trade -- Government policy -- United States. Excerpt: ...rld. I have a chart that shows oil consumption. Most of us know that we suck about 84 million barrels of oil a day out of this planet of ours. We stick little straws in the Earth and suck oil out, about 84 million barrels a day and we in the United States use fully one-fourth of it every single day. We are prodigious consumers of oil. Much of our oil comes from where it is most vulnerable in the world. Some very vulnerable regions of the country have a substantial amount of the resources. We are about 60 plus percent dependent on foreign sources of oil. That clearly, it seems to me, is not in our best interest. About 70 percent--just shy of 70 percent of the oil that comes into this country is used for transportation. We are unbelievably dependent, and growing in that dependence, on oil that comes from very troubled parts of the world. A substantial part, of which, after we import it, is used for transportation. And so God forbid there should be some terrorist attack some day that would shut off the pipeline of oil coming into this country. We would not only see dramatic increases in the price of that which we could import, but we would also see substantial disruption and substantial problems, and I think our economy would suffer a very serious long-term problem. Let me say that I also, coming from a State like North Dakota, have a pretty acute awareness of the energy issue, particularly with respect to oil. We drive exactly twice as much per person in North Dakota as New Yorkers do. That's just because we're a big, old State. It's not unusual for somebody to jump in a pickup truck and drive 200 miles, one way, to get some parts for the combine and drive 200 miles back and then go to work after that. We drive twice as much, per person, as a ...Hide synopsis
Energy Security and Oil Dependence--Recommendations on Policies and Funding to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence – Trade paperback
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