What percentage of oil used in the US is imported? n/t

[dogfacedboy]

[FloridaPat]

1. Around 60% before Katrina.

When I was in college in the 60's, we imported around 30% and our government during those years and since then has said we must become independent of foreign oil. All talk. The only action was sending the military into countries with oil.

[TX-RAT]

2. Up to 30%

And thats just a guess.

[ret5hd]

3. your guess is way low, i believe.

[TX-RAT]

6. You are correct

http://www.cis.state.mi.us/mpsc/reports/energy/02summer/oilimports.htm

[BlueEyedSon]

4. About half. Consumption is 19 million barrels/day, imports are 10 million

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/TanyaAlbukh.shtml

This link says 60%, with more recent numbers:
http://www.gravmag.com/oil.html

[havocmom]

5. For ar real scare, consider that about 40% of our food was imported

prior to Congress lifting the requirement that food be labeled with country of origin. That was changed just after the Nov 04 election. Am thinkin the percentage has gone up since then and they just don't want us to consider the ramifications of it all.

If you hate multinational oil corporations controlling your gas tank and heating, think about multinationals having control over your belly!

Take up gardening. Teach it to all the kids you can. Learn about what GOP policy is doing to the REAL family farmers and co-ops to drive them under and let the huge corporate farms take over food production in the US.

Oil is bad enough, but we need to think about food imports too.

[Ezlivin]

7. Starting an "End of Times" garden this year

We're also catching all the rainwater we can.

If nothing bad happens, we'll just be saving some good money on our grocery bills. If something bad does happen, we'll be much more self sufficient.

Well, at least until the armed gangs come and take it all from us.

:)

The glass isn't half full, it's smashed all to hell....

[havocmom]

10. Garden as a political act & teaching tool for oursleves & our kids!

The way things are is not what we have to accept. WE can affect changes. If you can grow some lettuce, spinach, beans, tomatoes, your body is better off. Your soul is refreshed. And you have taught your mind an important lesson: Work toward a better world. Do things which feed your belly and your humanity. Savor the simple things and know you can do part of what it takes to maintain life.

And time spent in the garden does not use as much oil as driving around in circles from mall to mall trying to buy things to fill the hollow places. It is time spent NOT letting corporate interests shake you down.

There are county extension offices, classes, books, USDA plant resources centers. Avail yourself of their gifts! There are organizations to promote knowlege and share seeds, which becomes critical as Monsanto insists on global mono-culture farming. Your new hobby could well be part of the saving of the planet.

You are only as helpless as you believe yourself to be.

Plant a seed. ;)

[serryjw]

8. Excellent point..Is there anything specific

we do not have in US that HAS to be imported....besides cavier:sarcasm:..those little fish eggs, how could I ever live without them!

[havocmom]

9. We have cavier here too!

I live by the Yellowstone River and a lake fed by the Missouri. Guess what kind of fish we have besides pike, trout, and paddle fish big enough to swim to the shore line and grab a thirsty deer for dinner? There are sturgeon here. And the eggs get harvested, canned, and often shipped to other nations!

If we would all settle for a little less of what we want, there would be plenty of what we need available.

When farmers have to sell off land that grew food to land developers, you lose more than food production. A family on a farm of several thousand acres sends just a few kids to schools. They flush toilets only so many times a day. They drive only so many miles a year on public roads.

Take that land and subdivide it to one to 50 families per acre and the public needs to pay for a whole lot more infrastructure. And a whole lot more oil gets used getting people from the new 'burbs to jobs in the urban centers. It is a lose/lose proposition for everyone but the developers and the pols they buy.