According to the latest statistics available from the Energy Department (July-August 2001), the United States uses about 20.0 million barrels of crude oil per day.
In July, 2001, we imported 9.4 million barrels per day, of which 2.7 million came from the Persian Gulf, which includes Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
From Arab OPEC as follows (in thousands of barrels a day):
Algeria 0
Iraq 697
Kuwait 287
Qatar 0
Saudi Arabia 1,683
UAE 0
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2,667
We imported zero from Russia.
eia.doe.gov
Personally I am willing to cut back on 13.5% consumption of gasoline and fuel oil (percentage of crude oil imported from Arab OPEC). I am going to start riding my bike to work, school and the grocery store, and raise the thermostat.
If any oil company has the cojones to quit importing oil from the Middle East, they've got my business.
Anybody who starts selling "100% free of Middle-East crude oil content" gasoline - I will pay extra for it.
They say capitalists will sell you the rope to hang them with. I won't give them the money to kill me with.
Any country that won't help us or turns against us, I will boycott and urge everyone I know to boycott. |
