Oil Prices
 

This says a lot ! Want to know about the higher gas prices??

"Russia celebrates landmark victory as it steals USA's energy security
Pravda Today. :ohdear

Sad that we are back to purchasing fuels from others many of which are not our friends

You didn't bother to supply the link, so HERE it is. Maybe you could have summarized what Pravda is saying as it certainly is a reliable source, right?

In summary, the numbers being discussed are through the end of 2020, having nothing to do with any decisions since that time. And oil imports in the US from Russia dropped in 2020, certainly in large part because of reduced demand from Covid.

Now PennBP explain how those facts relate to the recent increase in gasoline prices?

Maybe it's time we reduced our per capita usage of petroleum products (from more than five times the global average) so that we are self-sufficient

I am all for using nuclear power like France, Germany and Russia. Cheaper and much cleaner for the environment. That is why those countries show less usage on your "chart" which shows oil usage alone. BTW: China and India burn much more coal than oil.

As lovely as it sounds, there's no way we can eliminate our crude oil usage. We can certainly reduce its use as a fuel. But petroleum is the base material in plastic and eliminating plastic manufacturing is just not gonna happen - not in my lifetime or in the lifetime of the next few generations.

I would love to see us reduce our reliance on ANY fossil fuels for fuel. Gas and petroleum both. Technology and manufacturing innovations has come such a long way, but there's so much room for improvement.

Simple idea, maybe impossible to implement with our current technology: using vegetable oil for diesel engines (which you can already do) BUT - rework the exhaust system to somehow fit some device to the exhaust that neutralizes it, with zero carbon monoxide discharge.

At one point we were paying farmers to burn their cornfields, because there was too much, and the prices dropped too low for them to stay afloat. Imagine them not having to waste all that potential energy, and instead, profit from it while allowing us to continue using diesel motor vehicles, with clean-burning fuel. Right now it isn't possible. It could be though. And the oil companies could be jumping on this idea and running with it and making a fortune while at the same time reducing (not eliminating) their fossil fuel production.

Ok, stop using electric and ride bicycle. Not going to happen is it.

Everything green made out of fossil fuels and metals that have to be mined by fossil fuel equipment. Wind turbines not going to produce enough energy to ever stop coal and natural gas. It will help but will never be the big player. Solar has some potential in another 50 years. I don’t want to here how Tesla plant all green, it’s not even close. Solar fields in California looks like desert trashed. The shovel ready jobs long gone.

The solar fields in California ARE a desert. That's why they put the solar fields there. That's all those fields are good for. It's the Mojave desert.

That plant uses a huge amount of natural gas. And it's also pretty good at vaporizing birds in flight.

No, they destroyed the living desert and now it waste land sand dunes.

I for one am Shocked that Oil & Gas Prices have risen so steeply lately. NOT!

In UK we are amazed at the US obsession with gas prices.
At present we are at about $8 a gallon of gas, and $9 for diesel, and hardly take any notice of it.
You hit $3 and its the end of the world.:ohdear:

We live in a much larger country and have a tradition of doing a lot of driving.

In the US, we are amazed at the UK obsession with taxation. I seem to recall reading there was a war about it some time back.

It's around $6.50 a gallon in the UK and not forgetting it is a larger gallon as it is imperial measurement! Still way too expensive though. Oil is the product we need for centuries to come and is used in so many 'products' not just plastics. gas for vehicles represents one of it's smaller uses! Electric vehicles have to have a charged produced by a power station somewhere on the grid, and guess what they burn fossil fuels! More electric vehicles means worse pollution. Not only the fossil fuel but the battery manufacture and disposal of them. Not to get political here but carbon is vital to our world and if you do the research right we are not polluting our planet as many would believe. We represent a tiny fraction of carbon produced. Around the earth at any one time, under and above the sea there are volcanic erruptions pumping out more 'pollutant' than humans can presently produce in a 100 years! And thos happen all the time below the seas. You really must question what we are told.