# drill our own oil petition.

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**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drill-our-own-oil-petition/197800 "2008-06-02T20:34:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drill-our-own-oil-petition/197800/33 "2008-06-18T19:09:59Z")

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> [@Who drives the charger with the plate...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-drives-the-charger-with-the-plate/36865/40):
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> it very well IS that easy right now. the US is an oil hog hands down. if we cut back, we pay less.
> 
> Top World Oil Consumers, 2006  
> (thousand barrels per day)  
> Rank Country Consumption  
> 1 United States 20,687  
> 2 China 7,201  
> 3 Japan 5,159  
> 4 Russia 2,811  
> 5 Germany 2,665  
> 6 India 2,572  
> 7 Canada 2,264  
> 8 Brazil 2,217  
> 9 Korea, South 2,174  
> 10 Saudi Arabia 2,139  
> 11 Mexico 1,997  
> 12 France 1,961  
> 13 United Kingdom 1,830  
> 14 Italy 1,732  
> 15 Iran 1,686
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> ANWAR is no magical solution. It will at best input ~5% increase in US production. We can easily save 15% of consumption by building/driving better cars.

Shane from out of fucking nowhere! :bowdown:

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