Oil is a sticky situation, gas station to station, pump to pump, the grasp of black gold on the United States is squeezing out its life.

Political Science Major, 25-year-old Student Trustee from Ventura County, Nick Turner shares his dependency on oil.

“I’m highly dependent, with out oil I couldn’t go to work or to school,” said Turner.

On the topic another student, 21-year-old Cory Burns confirmed the grasp of black gold in his life.

“I’m very dependent on oil, it runs the Yaris,” said Burns.

The firm grip that oil has on the red, white and blue makes it nearly impossible to escape.

“We need it, we need it for everything, it makes plastic,” said Burns.

“In 2008, the United States consumed a total of 7.14 billion barrels of oil,” stated in an article on eia.doe.gov.

Most of that oil is not coming from our own soil.

“In 2008, about 57% of the petroleum consumed by the United States was imported from foreign countries,” according to an article on eia.doe.gov

Turner states that there should be a change in direction from where the U.S. obtains its industrial blood.

“We are too dependent on the foreign, not enough on domestic. If we came up with highly developed technology to replace it, we can get off foreign oil,” said Turner.

Yet the subject of domestic drilling does not ring a glorious bell in the majorities’ ears.

Most recently there has been an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Huffington Post has a day to day update on the impact of oil spill.

“It keeps spewing over 200,000 gallons every single day, if not more,” said Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in The Huffington Post.

The spill makes the decisions for offshore drilling off of the west coast a very touchy subject.

“It’s clearly very disturbing, and we don’t want to see it repeated,” said David Dickson director of the Oceans program for the Alaska Wilderness League in an article at www.rollcall.com.

The damage that the current spill is having on the gulf may never be fully recovered from.  The control that oil has on this country may never be fully released from.

“I spent a lot of time in the Gulf of Mexico, years there… years. I’m interested in seeing what it looks like when I go back,” said Turner.