Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130817:00:15:00
And sends oil prices through the roof, consumers feel that at the pump in the united states. and day demand action. that draws us in to conflicts around the world. >> yet in the last few years, we have begun to wean ourselves off foreign oil. since 2005, oil imports are down from 60% to less than 45% of total consumption. part of the reason, a technological breakthrough that makes it possible to extract vast amounts of oil from shell rock, right in our own backyard. >> up until recently, it was judged intapable. it was impossible to get oil out of this rock. a few people had a vision, if we ca...