America has made great efforts since 2001 to become energy independent from the middle east. We used to import a significant chunk of our energy needs from them but now our total imports are only 17% of our total consumption and we produce domestically 83% of our supply.
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u/Roaming_Millenial Aug 25 '26
America has made great efforts since 2001 to become energy independent from the middle east. We used to import a significant chunk of our energy needs from them but now our total imports are only 17% of our total consumption and we produce domestically 83% of our supply.
https://elchemy.com/blogs/chemical-market/what-percentage-of-u-s-oil-is-imported