Today's the day. On a proportional basis, the U.S. has effectively run out of domestic oil for the year and will be forced to rely completely on foreign imports for the rest of the year. For seven months straight—every time we fill up our cars and trucks, we'll be sending our money directly overseas. In 2006, we'll spend some $230 billion on foreign oil—nearly $450,000 every minute.

To mark the day, Environmental Action has pulled together a diverse coalition of groups including security experts, environmentalists, consumers, and labor unions—all of whom agree that America's dependence on oil is one of our greatest threats and that it is time to move beyond decades of rhetoric to actually do something.

We've lauched a snazzy interactive new website: www.dependenceday.org.

Check it out. Get involved. Tell your friends. Call your Members of Congress. Help turn the tide.

If you haven't already checked it out, EA has launched a new energy independence campaign with some (ahem) pretty cool features. We've created a "Cost of Oil Counter," which keeps an annual running tally of oil consumed, money spent and global warming pollution generated. We've also created a neat world map of "Who Has the Oil?," which reapportions every country based on the size of their oil reserves.

You can download your own version of the map here.

As the first step of our campaign, we've launched a Declaration of Energy Independence to set out an attainable goal to reduce our dependence by at least 10 percent in 10 years, at least 50 percent by 2030, and to get completely off of oil by 2050. We'll be pushing Members of Congress to support this Declaration, but for now, we're just focused on building public support for these goals.