The US is energy independent, but for economic and strategic reasons we continue to import a moderate amount of crude oil. Most of it comes from Canada, followed by Mexico. Here are imports from OPEC, nearly all of it from Saudi Arabia these days.
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Iraq is 36% of that OPEC total, so nearly all of it is Saudi and Iraq.
There are different uses for different types of crude oil. Industrial and industrial food use both rely on steam fractionation, which requires a known quality/length to the long carbon chains to get precise results.
Oh, Kevin. Are these billions of barrels per month? per year? What? And what is the percentage of the total US oil consumption?
Answers: per year, 7%
Wait, I was told we could not drill our way to energy independence.
Of course you can…for a while.
It’s not the size of your straw, but how much remains in your cup. The entire concept of burning our oil faster for strategic reasons is so far beyond stupid that I must conclude anyone who states it is not even worthy of my intellectual contempt.