quote:It was I who said that ! and with good reason, we as a country consume 25% of the world supply of oil but only have known 3% of the reserves. Simple math. If you use more than you got, sooner or later you will get in trouble gettin' what someone else has got. Like I said, we use too much oil. That's just a fact.
Consuming more of an item than you can produce is no big deal. We also eat more bananas than we grow domestically. While it may be a fact that we use more oil than we produce, there is absoutely no basis for declaring that amount to be "too much."