In this book I'm reading it gave a bunch of facts about America and it's wealth. It was talking about the amount of oil we use every day, it also compared the U.S.' oil use to the other 2 leading countries..
Japan: 5.5 million barrels a day
China: 5.6 million barrels a day
the United States?...: 20 million barrels a day
China: 5.6 million barrels a day
the United States?...: 20 million barrels a day
20 million barrels a day? that's almost 4 times as much as the 2nd leading country. The book goes on to say that we use 25% of the oil, but only have 3% of the reserves to get the oil. So we import it. We import 54% of our oil, mostly from the Persian Gulf. We march in there with a piece of paper saying we have the right to take as much of their oil as we so please. As someone in my group pointed out: If China came waltzing in on America with a little piece of paper saying they could freely take the whatever oil they wanted, we would have no problem sitting back saying, "Hey no problem, help yourself." No way! We'd send them back on their ships telling them they better not even try again.
I think we need to just step back and relax a little, otherwise we're going to fall even harder than we are. We need to get on a smaller horse, cuz if America falls..everyone falls.
I think we need to just step back and relax a little, otherwise we're going to fall even harder than we are. We need to get on a smaller horse, cuz if America falls..everyone falls.
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