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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (572029)6/16/2010 5:33:30 PM
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And where we may not be independent of international oil, if we only bought from Canada and Mexico, we would still be limiting the amount of money that we send to hostile countries like those in the mideast and venezuela.

As long as we import any oil. Really as long as we use any oil, supply from outside the US, Canada, and Mexico will effect us, and our demand will effect it. Even if we got all our oil from North America, reductions in supply from elsewhere would drive up our price. Increases in our demand would drive up the price Venezuela and countries in the middle east get. There is a world market for oil.

Which does not mean I'm against opening more areas to drilling, far from it, I'm not one to leave valuable resources unused without a very good reason. But the idea of oil independence even on the scale of North America, rather than just the US, is less realistic, and less meaningful, than many seem to believe.
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