Face the Facts USA: A dramatic rise in power failures

Each day in the 100 days leading up to Election Day, our website and Face the Facts USA will be partnering to bring you one exhaustively researched and vetted, non-partisan fact about a major issue facing our nation.

FACT #22: A dramatic rise in power failures

Since mid-2009, more than 1,100 new oil rigs have begun pumping in the United States, or about one new rig a day.

Even though domestic oil production has reached its highest point since 2003, it is still less than one-third of the oil consumed by Americans.

The U.S. is still reliant on imports from nations like the Big Three: Canada, Saudi Arabia and Mexico.

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