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TheWraith

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9. We "export" refined products brought here SPECIFICALLY for refining.

Reply to Loudmxr (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 13, 2012, 10:40 AM

Mar 2012

Oil is brought from overseas to US refineries, converted into usable products, and then shipped back. Those are the "exports" you're referring to. Your attitude aside, the person you replied to is correct: there is no way of producing enough oil in the US to meet US demand. Particularly at $1 a gallon levels.

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65% of Americans want Obama to take control of American Oil [View all] shintao Mar 2012 OP

I think we import about 60% of the oil we use. Morning Dew Mar 2012 #1

Let me educate you on the OOOIILL bidness. Loudmxr Mar 2012 #2

The entire ANWR reserve wouldn't power California. sofa king Mar 2012 #5

We "export" refined products brought here SPECIFICALLY for refining. TheWraith Mar 2012 #9

Sounds more like dipsydoodle Mar 2012 #3

Thank you for the humor this morning LARED Mar 2012 #4

"This is a joke, yes?" jschurchin Mar 2012 #6

65% of Americans are ignorant of what the rest of the world pays. Cestode Mar 2012 #7

Are they asking that the President break at least 3 cardinal rules of the GOP? sinkingfeeling Mar 2012 #8

I am all for more Government control over Oil Companies, but not to lower the price at the pump PuffedMica Mar 2012 #10

Exactly, but the people who want it nationalized do not want it to go up. nt Snake Alchemist Mar 2012 #11

and with this current administration we'd end up being required to buy no less than MisterP Mar 2012 #12