Jan 13, 2010 ... The United States imported 4 million barrels of oil a day—or 1.5 billion barrels  per year—from “dangerous or unstable” countries in 2008 at a cost of about $150  billion. Download ... This is but one example that our economic recovery and long -term growth is inexorably linked to our reliance on foreign oil.
Our dependence complicates our foreign policy and embroils the United States in  conflicts abroad, while we fund many of our own adversaries. Oil dependence  threatens U.S. economic security. Most of our oil is produced overseas,. • and  every day Americans send over $1 billion abroad to pay for it. The result is lost.
May 18, 2011 ... We pay directly at the pump; we pay as businesses pass higher fuel costs on to  their consumers (think airline fares); and, as a country, we pay foreign countries  to support our fuel habit. Wouldn't it be far better if we could keep the hundreds of  billions of dollars that we currently spend on foreign oil every ...
National Security. Our addiction to imported oil has huge national security  implications. The U.S. spends nearly a half billion dollars on foreign oil every day,  mostly for transportation. Every time you fill up your car, you're sending a check to  foreign countries to pay for their oil. Why not send your money to the local electric  ...
Depending on OPEC and other foreign sources for half of our oil puts America in  a precarious position. In addition to putting our security in the hands of potentially  unfriendly and unstable OPEC nations, we are jeopardizing our economy. In  2013, we imported 1.35 billion barrels of oil from OPEC at a cost of $147 billion.
We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil.