[areafiftyone]

How much you wanna make a bet that is obstructed too by the Democreeps.

[Willie Green]

How much you wanna make a bet that is obstructed too by the Democreeps.

When Dubya makes a big hullaballoo about a phoney panacea like hydrogen cars, why should he expect RINO senators to take the ANWR proposal seriously?

It's the same old political crap that has led to an ineffective Energy Policy for over 30 years.

U.S. Petroleum & Crude Oil Overview
(thousand barrels per day)

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000
U.S. Crude Oil Production	7,035	7,804	9,637	8,375	8,597	8,971	7,355	6,560	5,834
U.S. Petroleum Imports	1,815	2,468	3,419	6,056	6,909	5,067	8,018	8,835	11,093
Total	8,850	10,272	13,056	14,431	15,506	14,038	15,373	15,395	16,927
Imports as % of Total	20.5	24.0	26.2	42.0	44.6	36.1	52.2	57.4	65.5