EIA Provides Update on US Dependence on Foreign Oil

Link here.

The U.S. imported about 49 percent of the crude oil and refined petroleum products that were consumed during 2010, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) noted in a recent brief on the issue.

About half of these imports came from the Western Hemisphere, EIA said, adding that U.S. dependence on foreign petroleum has declined since peaking in 2005.

Canada is the United States' leading crude oil supplier.

And if we had the TransCanada XL on-line, even less would be coming from the Mideast. Ditto for offshore drilling. Ditto for faster permitting on BLM land in the west. Ditto for so much.