Transportation
Feb. 4, 2015
Electric vehicles drown while we swim in a sea of oil
Last year the U.S. achieved a goal long considered unapproachable: It surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's largest producer of oil. By Jonathan Michaels
Last year the U.S. achieved a goal long considered unapproachable: It surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's largest producer of oil. At 12.5 million barrels per day, the U.S. now extracts more oil than any of the OPEC countries, and more than Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar combined.
It wasn't always this way. In 2006, the U.S. produced 8.3 million barrels, and before that one must go back to the 1960s to see ...
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