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  • Barrels of Oil Imported by the U.S.
  • 4.35 billionin 2009
  • % Imported from Foreign Countries
  • 63%in 2009
  • Money Sent Overseas
  • $265 Billionin 2009
The purpose of this data is to track America's efforts to reduce foreign oil dependency by analyzing progress — or lack thereof — on a month-to-month basis.

Foreign oil is ruining the economy. Help us stop it.

Oil Import News

  • December 14th, 2009
  • November Oil Imports - No Relief in Sight
  • T. Boone Pickens has issued his 12th monthly press release shining a spotlight on the amount of oil the United States continues to import. In a press release published Monday, December 14, “based on the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. imported 61% percent of its [...]

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  • November 9th, 2009
  • October Oil Numbers Released: Another $26.5 Billion Sent Overseas
  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    U.S. Imported 350 Million Barrels of Oil in October
    Pickens Highlights Extensive Supply of Natural Gas in U.S.; Urges Congress to Pass the NAT GAS Act to Dramatically Reduce Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
    Pickens says, “America is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. It’s time for us to use this precious resource [...]

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  • October 13th, 2009
  • U.S. Spent $25 Billion on Foreign Oil in September
  • The September Oil Import numbers have been released and the news is not good. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of Energy we imported 357 million barrels of oil in September at a cost of $25 billion. We imported 63 percent of the oil we required in [...]

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