USA OIL COMES FROM THESE SOURCES. SURPRISE!!!!

[swinney]

VENEZUELA-1,957 THOUSANDS OF BARRELS per day.
MEXICO-1,490
COLOMBIA-233
ECUADOR-99
TOTAL FROM AMERICAS CONTINENT----3,771
TOTAL FROM PERSIAN GULF----------2,200

SOURCE--www.tucsoncitizen.com/indexphp?
also on democratic underground 8-18-03 in latest breaking news section.

[LeftistGorilla]

1. and...

look how stable these countries are...

[ArkDem]

2. You weren't aware of this?

It's been going on since the early seventies.

[treepig]

3. your link doesn't work for me

but maybe you can explain why they omitted canada? it's right up there in supplying oil to the usa:

The USA imports about 55% of its oil needs.
Sources of U.S. Oil Imports (millions of barrels per day, 2001): Canada: 1.79 - Saudi Arabia: 1.66 - Venezuela: 1.54 - Mexico: 1.42 - Nigeria: .86 - Iraq: .78 - Norway: .33 - Angola: .32 - United Kingdom: .31 - Total: 11.62. (Source: Energy Information Administration).

Sources of U.S. Oil Imports (%, 2002): Saudi Arabia: 16.9% - Mexico: 15.1% - Canada: 15.0% - Venezuela: 14.4% - Iraq: 11.4% - Nigeria: 5.9.%.

only about 30% of the USA's oil imports came from Arab countries in 2002. Since USA oil imports are about 55% of USA oil consumption, only about 15% of USA's oil consumption is provided by Arab countries.


from http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/oil.html

consequently the total from the 'americas continent' is substantially higher than you indicate - furthermore, besides imports (your post doesn't specific imports, just where america gets its oil) about 9 million barrels per day are produced domestically - all told, the americas total should be about 4-fold higher.