Oil Imports (possible nit)

Post #309,054 by dmcarls 5/21/09 11:15:47 PM Reply	Oil Imports (possible nit) In your citation, they say "First most of our oil come from the Middle East"... While we, as a nation, are focused on the Middle East (for our own reasons), most of our oil actually comes from Canada and Mexico according to this: http://www.eia.doe.g...rrent/import.html [...] "Canada remained the largest exporter of total petroleum in February, exporting 2.512 million barrels per day to the United States, which is a decrease from last month (2.544 thousand barrels per day). The second largest exporter of total petroleum was Mexico with 1.364 million barrels per day."
Post #309,064 by boxley 5/22/09 7:46:48 AM Reply	shh, dont annoy the true beleivers :-)
Post #309,071 by Another Scott 5/22/09 8:19:00 AM Reply	Give it time... Yeah, too many people conflate "proven" reserves, production, and exports to the USA. Given current trends, though, Mexico is going to be a net importer before too long (Canterell is collapsing). Canada has big (unconventional) reserves, but a lot of it is expensive to produce and may not ever be profitable. So, given current trends, Saudi Arabia may be our biggest supplier in a decade or two. (But it's unrealistic, of course, to think that any trend will continue exactly as current trends indicate for the next 10-20 years.) On Mexico: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2226 On Canada: http://canada.theoildrum.com/node/2889 Cheers, Scott.
Post #309,076 by boxley 5/22/09 9:02:54 AM Reply	this guy is not a blogger, sycophant, thinktank maven economist, government employee or a flack. He does something that all of us remember from a dim past, work for a living. I suspect he may be a Canadian because he follows the edmonton oilers so veracity may be a problem. here is a few pics that he purports is from those hard to extract, uneconomical oils shales sands in Canada http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil1.jpg http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil2.jpg http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil3.jpg http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil4.jpg http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil5.jpg http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil6.jpg http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil7.jpg http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil8.jpg http://home.comcast....liaoxley/oil9.jpg http://home.comcast....iaoxley/oil10.jpg
Post #309,106 by Ashton 5/23/09 8:38:19 PM Reply	Re: this guy is not a blogger, sycophant, thinktank maven Words like that from the Human Events wacko-vocab , the usual crude deriding of any semblance of scientific literacy -- makes one not some vaunted Hero Skeptic, but just another mouth-breather agin them-smart-college guys; sounds like My Gramma and.. ..and does not Convince. Further, the fact of the politics of science-iggerant massively Corporate-funded Reps guarantees that 'scientific literacy' shall continue to be beside-the-Point: until there is public funding of all Representative elections and full disclosure of every lobbyist's contributions: this info prefacing every bloviation on the public record. Doable, not even hard to enact -- but odds remain slim when only the rich can buy a Rep. Apples, oranges. Mobs/pitchforks. Muricans are ~uneducable, in the mass. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken
Post #309,143 by boxley 5/25/09 8:56:23 PM Reply	oh I forgot, retiree :-)
Post #309,136 by jake123 5/25/09 3:52:27 PM Reply	Those pics are all from the showroom, not the jobsite Zero relevance to how hard to extract the oil sands are. The biggest problems with the oil sands are groundwater contamination, river contamination, destruction of the local ecosystem, and massive CO2 production. The natives downriver from those megaprojects are beginning to seriously bitch about how the fish they catch taste like petroleum and that they can't help but notice that a lot more of their people are kicking off from weird cancers at young ages.
Post #309,142 by boxley 5/25/09 8:55:41 PM Reply	jobsite guarrantee

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