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To: Eric who wrote (23937)	10/20/2010 10:55:05 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

i didn't start driving until 1979. I fill my gas tank up about once a month. Except when I am visiting customers, I have been working from home for 15 years. I'm not exactly a power user when it comes to automobiles. Even with the restrictions on drilling in California Coastal waters and ANWR and various other places, the US produces about half of the oil it uses (we use about 18 million barrels a day and we produce about 9 million barrels a day). We import about 2 million barrels a day from Canada and another 1 million per day from Mexico. So that gets us 2/3rds of the way there. I'm not an expert on how much our oil capacity could be increased if restrictions on drilling were lifted. But my guess is that it would be pretty close to our needs. And with significant portions of our oil coming form hostile countries (venezuela, saudi arabia, iraq etc....) someday we may have to be realistic and practical and lift those restrictions. But, it ain't the end of the world....hardship? yes.....but we could survive.