How dependent is the U.S. on oil?

Question

How dependent is the U.S. on oil?

Answer 1

the question really is how dependent is  bush from excesive amount of income. why else do you think the invade irak to get thei petrol and raise the value of theone he already own

Answer 2

very dependant bush just signed a treety that we can not produce oil that we must buy it all in another country. i don't rember where i herd it from

Answer 3

the fuel of choice that began the industrial revolution within the past 200 years was coal since it basically began in the textile industry in Britain and coal was already available and relatively easy to get out of the ground.

as technology became available to find and extract oil, it took over because it is much more efficient than coal which means it takes less oil than it does coal to produce the same amount of energy.

almost everything around you is produced by oil.  the clothes you wear are either natural fibers which are commercially produced by growing crops such as cotton that use oil to run the tractors and spray the water and the pesticides to kill the bugs or are made from chemicals like nylon or rayon that are based on oil.  food is also produced based on an oil dependency and so are nearly all manufactured goods since most manufacturing processes use electricity that is generated by oil. obviously transportation both personal and commercial - air, land and sea, is oil-dependent.

as oil becomes harder to extract, many countries are going back to coal as a source to generate electricity and, because it is a much less efficient energy source, will eventually make things harder to produce and more expensive to own.

Answer 4

The U.S. is VERY dependent on oil. Just look at all the plastic products you can find in stores all around you, the multitude of cars traveling on the roads. When you say oil, do you mean petroleum or the refined "oil" which is actually gasoline? Either way, the U.S. is heavily dependent on oil for just about everything, which explains why the U.S is always worrying about its foreign oil sources whenever some situation erupts in the Middle East (where we get much of our oil from) and why some people so badly want us to open up oil reserves in Alaska.