Cracking the Code


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We're not exactly pulling our weight when it comes to energy production.

Florida is the third highest user of oil and gas among the 50 states. Yet, the state produces less than 12% of the energy it consumes and less than 1% of the total energy produced in the U.S.

But just offshore in the eastern Gulf of Mexico there could be billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.

 

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