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🇬🇧 Energy security starts at home.
Right now Britain is becoming more dependent on foreign oil every year.
Here are the facts most people aren’t told:
• The UK used around 61 million tonnes of oil in 2024
• We only produced around 31 million tonnes ourselves
That means over half of the oil we rely on now comes from overseas.
So where does it come from?
Countries including the United States, Norway and the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the UK still has billions of barrels of oil equivalent remaining in the North Sea, particularly in:
✔ The Central North Sea
✔ The Northern North Sea
✔ West of Shetland
Estimates suggest Britain still has around 2.9 billion barrels of proven reserves and potentially billions more yet to be developed or discovered.
That’s over 100 billion gallons of energy still in British waters.
Yet instead of producing our own energy, we are increasingly importing it from other countries.
And here’s the uncomfortable truth:
If Britain doesn’t drill it…
we still use it.
We just buy it from somewhere else.
Energy security isn’t just about climate policy.
It’s about national resilience, jobs, tax revenue and strategic independence.
Britain will still need oil for decades, for transport, manufacturing, aviation, plastics and industry.
The real question is simple:
Do we produce it ourselves…
or rely on the rest of the world?
🇬🇧 Drill Baby Drill.
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