claim: "we get 30 percent of our oil from the gulf (of mexico)."
author: orrin hatch
evidence_1: aug 30, 2017 ... crude oil inventories down 5.4 million barrels 10:40 am et wed, 30 aug ... the  gulf coast is home to about 46 percent of u.s. refining capacity. ... to take weeks  to get these refineries back on line…and in houston, we're just ...
evidence_2: aug 5, 2017 ... the number of rigs exploring for oil and gas in the gulf of mexico took its biggest  plunge in more than two years this week, the latest count ...
evidence_3: may 25, 2010 ... slick solution: how microbes will clean up the deepwater horizon oil spill ... " every ocean we look at, from the antarctic to the arctic, there are oil-degrading  bacteria," ... "i take the 30 percent depletion of oxygen in water near the oil as  indicating ... "as long as there is oxygen around, it will get chewed up.
evidence_4: studies following the bp oil disaster show that the gulf's marine life and their  ocean habitats suffered the worst impacts. we need you to speak up for open ...
evidence_5: #commodities. august 30, 2016 / 11:30 am / a year ago. u.s. says 22 percent of  gulf of mexico oil production shut on storm threat. reuters staff. 1 min read.