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Originally Posted by roflwaffle
The U.S. only produces one out of every four barrels of oil that it uses, so as a whole that's a net of ~$1.1 billion dollars per day moving out of the economy at current prices, which is about 2.5% of GDP.
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And the question you have to ask is how you ensure the supply of the other three ? Or you could reduce your consumption instead, seems like a damn good national policy to me.
When your debt to revenue ratio is 358% maybe its time to ask some folks to be a little more considerate about how they use finite resources you have to buy with hard currency.
And yes, I know we (the UK) are not much better...