America's Dependence on Foreign Oil

American people spend more than $200,000 per minute on foreign oil, $13million per hour, according to http://www.nrcd.org/air/transportation/aoilpolicy2.asp. The supply projections and how our policy of oil dependence effects our economy and security. The growing demands and shrinking domestic production means Americans are importing more and more oil every year. The United States gasoline consumption accounting 11percent of the worlds oil production, the United States has been hit hard by our dependence on oil.

The countries on the United States oil purchases are spending lots in Washington to make sure the party does not end. To days oil use outpaces new oil discoveries, with the world using about 12billion more barrels per year than it finds. The only real solution is to limit the demands for oil and therefore the economic and security risk of dependence on imports. We need to find more renewable sources of energy, and increase the efficiency of our cars and trucks.

I think what we need to do is find something the world has a lot of and use it for cars, trucks, trains and automobiles in general to run on because we are running out of oil, and we use so much of it. And i think people should only use oil when the need it not just when they want to use it. That's what i think should happen with our oil problem we have today in the United States.