148k views
4 votes
5. How does the foreign oil situation affect Americans today?

2 Answers

3 votes

Oil dependency is a huge issue in today's world. Between oil fracking destroying our environment, creating earthquakes, and oil spills destroying our oceans and potential drinking water, i feel oil

User Lockdoc
by
5.7k points
4 votes
Americans continue to rely heavily on foreign oil. The United States consumes about twenty million of the roughly eighty million barrels of oil consumed daily in the world, and three-fifths of that is imported.
Hope this helps.
User Ricky Ruiz
by
6.1k points