Tanks run on petroleum fuels
Bradleys and Strykers run on petroleum fuels
Apaches, Kiowas, Chinooks, Cobras, and other military helicopters run on petroleum fuels
Fighters and bombers run on petroleum fuels
The MLRS and all other artillery systems run on petroleum fuels
Deuce and a halves, five tons, HMMWVs, HEMTTs, HETs and all other military wheeled vehicles run on petroleum fuels
Many smaller naval vessels, like destroyers, frigates and support ships run on petroleum fuels.
That's not to mention all the civilian Chevies, Fords, Dodges, Toyotas, Nissans, etc, that Americans depend on to get to work, to make our free market economy actually run.
We need oil to survive. We should have started drilling our own years ago.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The Petrochemical industry
5% of the worlds fertilizer is made from Natural Gas.
Industrial oils and greases that keep our manufacturing and food processing machines running.
51 percent of heated homes in the U.S. (or 49.1 million homes) used natural gas heating in 2000.
Commercial heating and cooling by Natural gas.
Don't want to forget those power plants that use natural gas to make electricity.
The list just keeps growing.
Warehousing just-in-time shipping systems have only about a month of product in the system. Short term in the event the U.S. oil imports by tanker dried up; the reserves down in the Lone Star salt domes may well be the deciding factor of sufficient food to avoid riots and looting in cities of coastal states. In the long term synthetic nitrate fertilizer, farm equipment, grain bulk storage, push boat-barge shipment, rely on petroleum oil/ gas products for the next crop. The consequences, of a lack of natural gas through existing pipelines to the east coast, could be extrapolated from the Texas and New Mexico winter experience of 2011. Coal processed to liquid fuels could reduce the future shortfall of imported crude oil. Start a garden and stock up.