Environment Health: U.S. Presidents since Richard Nixon have obsessed about American dependence on foreign oil--and have proven unable to do much about it. U.S. domestic oil production was on a long slope downwards, while the American thirst for crude--and the size of our automobiles--kept increasing. As a result, despite all the bipartisan hand wringing about imports, the U.S. just kept getting more and more dependent on foreign oil--and especially foreign oil from the Middle East, which happens to be home to a number...
URL: http://science.time.com/2012/11/13/the-u-s-will-be-an-oil-giant-again-but-it-wont-be-energy-independent/
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