We cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year.
Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the terminal decline of existing fields.
We are going to have to import more of our oil. Period.
Crude oil may reach a record high this week amid concerns the Russian Government's dispute with OAO Yukos, the nation's biggest exporter of the fuel, will disrupt shipments, a Bloomberg survey of traders and analysts shows.
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