re: #105 Rightwingconspirator

Not sure we chose to import our oil. Our supplies are not nearly enough to support our economy, just as many other nations must import our grains. We have the breadbasket, they have the oil. None of this is by choice, more by luck of geography and climate.

We choose to consume more than we produce. We could get by on less, we have just decided to make our rate of energy consumption one of the benchmarks by which we measure prosperity and the AMerican Way of Life