Questões de Língua Inglesa da CESPE / CEBRASPE

America today imports more than three times as much the amount of oil it used to by the mid seventies.

currently, the U.S. imports two-thirds of its consumption everyday.

the Bush administration officially determined a slower exploitation of America's own oil reserves.

ethanol from corn will reduce external dependence of the U.S. on foreign oil during the decades to come.

the priorities of the nation may be mixed up with the priorities of the domestic oil industry.

Oil prices have doubled three times as much all along the last ten years.

Western countries do not need the petroleum found in Middle Eastern countries.

Washington succeeded in getting free from its dependence on foreign energy.

The goal of energy independence is understandable but, for the author of the text, it is an illusion.

President Nixon was the only person to worry about the North American energy independence.

expected.

definitely.

lovely.

certainly.

obviously.

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above.

near.

over.

behind.

underneath.