McCain blames Obama for gas prices?

[Phelan]

Originally Posted by SmokeG305

the average gallon of gas in venezuela is $.10


BTW, we don't buy gas from venezuela because their dictator/socialist/terrorist president is ANTI-AMERICAN.

Smoke, look at this link and reassess your stance on the US not buying crude oil from Venezuela.

Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries

[GZire]

Originally Posted by Phelan

Smoke, look at this link and reassess your stance on the US not buying crude oil from Venezuela.

Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries

How the hell do you find these stats?

[Phelan]

Originally Posted by GZire

How the hell do you find these stats?

Well this time I just went back to my post on the first page where I had linked it. The first time I did a google search for "us oil sources".

Here's another link showing further breakdown along with historical data. U.S. Total Crude Oil and Products Imports

[SmokeG305]

Originally Posted by Phelan

Smoke, look at this link and reassess your stance on the US not buying crude oil from Venezuela.

Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries

i really missed on trying to word my statement, i know US buys gas from venezuela, we're their #1 consumer.

i meant to say, we don't buy as much gas from venezuela because their president is anti-american.

[Phelan]

Originally Posted by SmokeG305

i really missed on trying to word my statement, i know US buys gas from venezuela, we're their #1 consumer.

i meant to say, we don't buy as much gas from venezuela because their president is anti-american.

Even that's not so true. Chavez took power in 1999, look at the historical data in that link above. We are importing from Venezuela pretty much the same amount now that we were before he was elected.

[SmokeG305]

Originally Posted by Phelan

Even that's not so true. Chavez took power in 1999, look at the historical data in that link above. We are importing from Venezuela pretty much the same amount now that we were before he was elected.

i meant that we don't buy as much from venezuela as we could. you would think with greater demand, we would buy more oil from venezuela.


how do you get to the historic numbers? all i see is 07 and 08

[Phelan]

Originally Posted by SmokeG305

i meant that we don't buy as much from venezuela as we could. you would think with greater demand, we would buy more oil from venezuela.


how do you get to the historic numbers? all i see is 07 and 08

U.S. Total Crude Oil and Products Imports
Last column says 'View History'

[SmokeG305]

Originally Posted by Phelan

U.S. Total Crude Oil and Products Imports
Last column says 'View History'

notice how steadily the importation of canadian oil has been rising over time.


as i said, we could be buying more oil from venezuela, but we don't. my guess is for political reasons.