On the recordMarch 21, 2012
A strategy that relies only on drilling defies the fact that America uses 20 percent of the world's oil, but we only have 2 percent of the world's known oil reserves.
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presidency.ucsb.eduBarack Obama: “A strategy that relies only on drilling defies the fact that America uses 20 percent of the world's oil, but we only…”
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