I just can't imagine people not knowing about tin-foil hats. Inconceivable!

While it's true we ARE dependent on foriegn oil, we don't have to be. If the environMENTAList whackjobs (tm) would pull their collective heads out, they'd stop blocking windfarms, domestic drilling and nuke power plants and we wouldn't need their oil. That said we get most of our oil from North and South America, not the middle east. However, there is still the matter of GLOBAL supply and demand too. Energy is a fairly complex issue.