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Slide 2: Imported oil as a percent of total US consumption. Note that "dependence" on imported oil has gone up from 28% in 1972 to 48% in 1998 even with the attempts at conservation and increased exploration during the 1970s and 1980s impelled by the "oil shocks" of 1973 and 1979. Credit: Courtesy Energy Information Administration. |
