31.   Lawmakers from both parties agree that the United States should become less dependent on imported oil, but partisan and regional differences and ferocious lobbying have left Congress paralyzed.

32.   North Korea relies on imported oil for fuel and fertilizer.

33.   Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Italy would benefit by paying for imported oil with cheaper dollars.

34.   Shares of utility companies fell on concern the rising dollar will drive up the price of the imported oil they use to generate power.

35.   Sluggish summer sales of American commercial aircraft and a rise in imported oil prices that exceeded expectations were cited as the main reasons for the wider deficit.

36.   Such modest new supplies would take an estimated seven years to reach the consumer and would be more costly than imported oil.

37.   That is neither a sensible energy policy nor the right strategy for reducing our reliance on imported oil.

38.   The decline in imports reflected a decline in volume of imported oil, a Commerce Department official said.

39.   The deficit shrank, in part, because a fuel glut forced down the price of imported oil.

40.   The electric car was hailed as the route to clean air and the antidote to dependence on imported oil.