Nov 13, 2013 ... The United States tiptoed closer to energy independence last month when -- for  the first time in nearly two decades -- it produced more crude oil than it imported,  federal officials said Wednesday.
Feb 25, 2009 ... Less Foreign Oil, Not More. One line in Obama's speech certainly sounded  plausible – given the widespread concern about foreign oil – but he got it wrong:  Obama: We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new  sources of energy, yet we import more oil today than ever before.
Jan 22, 2017 ... The United States is producing more oil and gas than ever before, and we are not  really dependent on foreign oil anymore. We import less oil than at anytime in the  last 30 years, and most of what we import is from Canada, not Saudi Arabia. But  this clamping down on scientists is troubling for another ...
This process of growth stopped, and was eventually reversed in the interwar  period; but since the Second World War international trade started growing again , and in the last decades trade expansion has been faster than ever before.  Today, the sum of exports and imports across nations is higher than 50% of  global ...
Apr 12, 2012 ... Since the Arab oil embargoes of the 1960s and 70s, it's been conventional  wisdom to talk about American dependence on oil from the Persian Gulf. But the  global oil market has changed dramatically since then. Today, the U.S. actually  gets most of its imported oil from Canada and Latin America. And many ...
We import more oil today than ever before.