not 50% of our current consumption which is how much we import. Besides, those reserves must be in international waters or within our own territory or we can't very well call them ours, can we? The key to the future is conservation and developing alternative resources. For that, we need long term planning and government involvement. Energy security should be a bipartisan mandate. The current war in the gulf and all the saber rattling about Iran are directly related to our dependence on Mid East oil. As long as we are dependent on their oil, we will be embroiled in their archaic struggles which we little understand and will never be able to control. When your struggles revolve around he irrational imperatives of religion, there is no fix to that. The peoples of the Mid East will not set aside their beliefs or their feuds for democracy and consumer culture. This is prefaced on the myth that our way of life is perfect and has universal appeal.