since cbs, nbc, abc, cnn (and even fox), et al, won't give anyone any hard figures on oil, here's a few interesting ones from the api (condensed by me), followed by my commentary, for whatever it's worth - U.S. petroleum imports in July were 11,072,000 barrels per day Total imports in July as a percentage of total domestic petroleum deliveries 57.7 percent Persian Gulf petroleum represented 20.2 percent of total imports in May (note: opec includes more than persian gulf countries) U.S. crude oil production in July was 5,812,000 b/d Count of active rotary drilling rigs in the U.S. as ...