How dependant are we onArab Oil?
By: Pam On: Oct/18/05 - 10 Comments
According to a report released by the Department of Energy on October 17, 2005
Total Imports of Petroleum
Top 15 Countries
(Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country………YTD 2005
CANADA……….2,116
MEXICO……….1,657
SAUDI ARABIA *..1,594
VENEZUELA…….1,575
NIGERIA………1,127
IRAQ *…………534
ALGERIA *………484
ANGOLA…………432
RUSSIA…………422
UNITED KINGDOM….384
VIRGIN ISLANDS….322
ECUADOR………..288
KUWAIT *……….208
COLOMBIA……….191
BRAZIL…………140
Total imports: 11,474
Total Arab (Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Iraq, and Kuwait): 2,820
Percent of Arab oil: 24.6%
Percent non-Arab: 75.4%
October 18, 2005 - 08:30 AM on October 18th, 2005
We would,nt have to depend on OPEC if we strated drilling in the ANWR and quit listening to the whinny enviromentalist wackos and the liberal left-wing news media:lol:
October 18, 2005 - 09:20 AM on October 18th, 2005
Mr. Snowy et all,
Mr. Snowy, et all,
The unadulterated ignorance on issues concerning energy in general and oil in specific betrayed by your comment about drilling ANWAR is frightening.
Seriously you really need to educate yourself about this issue because drilling ANWR (BTW did you hear, that bill passed, but the oil companies wont even start to tap ANWR oil for another decade, do you know why? Of course you don’t, your still buying the whole “environmentalists”argument).
Seriously, educate yourself; this chart is almost irrelevant to the core reasons as to why we are dependent on Arab oil. And if you don’t know why this chart is irrelevant to the reasons for our dependence then you simply are not informed enough on the issue for me or anyone else to engage you in a substantive discussion on the issue.
October 18, 2005 - 09:31 AM on October 18th, 2005
2, Rick, your arrogance is showing. Condesension is not a trump card in a debate, but a white flag stating that you can’t fight a fair fight, but are declaring victory and running away before you get your head handed to you.
October 18, 2005 - 09:31 AM on October 18th, 2005
2-”Seriously, educate yourself; this chart is almost irrelevant to the core reasons as to why we are dependent on Arab oil. And if you don’t know why this chart is irrelevant to the reasons for our dependence then you simply are not informed enough on the issue for me or anyone else to engage you in a substantive discussion on the issue.”- I take it you can’t explain yourself:roll:
October 18, 2005 - 09:49 AM on October 18th, 2005
“you simply are not informed enough on the issue for me or anyone else to engage you in a substantive discussion on the issue.â€
Ha, that’s some good stuff.
However, in the time it took to belittle everyone you could have explained the “core reasons”you alluded to.
October 18, 2005 - 09:57 AM on October 18th, 2005
Good old Rick. I’ve been reading him on and off for years, and his favorite debate tactic, #1 with a bullet, has always been the same: assert that those who disagree with him don’t know what they’re talking about, give a bunch of handwaving generalizations about how if they’d educate themselves they’d know they’re wrong, and then quit the field and leave without ever once providing a single reference to data to support his point.
Rick: Arab oil is no more than 15% of America’s total consumption, and Saudi oil is only about 8%. That is a fact, and you do not get to say that fact is irrelevant and if the stupid unwashed masses would just acknowledge this they’d be better off.
It is certainly arguable that the Saudis, because they have excess capacity much of the time, can exert control over the price of oil to a certain extent–but they are hardly omnipotent in this regard.
As for ANWR: The most pessimistic estimates on ANWR–which by the way was always marked off for limited oil development until environmental demagogues tried to stop it–show that it won’t make much difference. More generous estimates show that it might, and would certainly be arguably one part of an overall strategy to reduce dependence on imports, along with a host of other initiatives.
October 18, 2005 - 01:05 PM on October 18th, 2005
Because of the Enviros, we can’t dvelop ANY more of our own resources. Oil in ANWRA, known oil reserves off the Coast of California and Florida, Nuclear. Hell they even want to tear down the dams we have that produce much-needed Hydroelectric power (even though they are always clamoring for alternative energy sources). Solar power? They love it, but even if we could get the price/watt down, you would have to build huge PV arrays in the desert-and they won’t allow that, having in the last few years placed millions of acres of the Mojave desert in Kalifornia off-limits. Wind power? Great, except that they want to remove the wind farms in Altamont (Kalifornia) because birds are flying into the turbines.
No, they want everything and nothing at the same time. They are mentally ill. Many are hypocrites, too, especially the fat lawyers at the Sierra Klub who live in nice homes and drive expensive, polluting, fossil-fuel burning cars.
The environmental movement has long ago economically been hijacked by the lawyers, and politically by the commies.
October 18, 2005 - 07:43 PM on October 18th, 2005
2: Wow. And the point to all that was…?
October 18, 2005 - 08:00 PM on October 18th, 2005
8-:lol:
October 19, 2005 - 02:44 PM on October 19th, 2005
DeMented Rick?