German Expressionism
Sike. Oil.
- The US produces 5,064,000 barrels/ day.
- The US exports 1,433,000 barrels/ day.
- The US imports 12,036,000 barrels/ day.
- The US consumes 20,680,000 barrels/ day.
- The world consumes 83,607,000 barrels/ day.
- The world produces 82,532,000 barrels/ day.
- Canada is the #1 oil importer to the United States.
- Saudi Arabia takes the cake for most oil produced and exported worldwide.
- The idea that we can drill our way to independence or at least to yield an amount of oil that makes a difference and helps our cause is complete fallacy.
- It takes about 5-12 years for a prospective site to yield oil, once production begins.
- Refineries in the US are currently running at or near capacity, so even if we were to find and produce enough oil to sate the United States’ appetite for such, we’d have to ship the oil we produced in the US to be refined overseas or in Mexico or wherever and then ship the refined product back to the United States.
- This would (and does, because we currently do this) add $20/25 to the price per barrel.
Truth be told, I got some of these facts from the people that are interviewed in the documentary I’m cutting, so some of them may or may not be entirely true, though I tend to think that most if not all are. Whatever. Sometimes I feel like I can pass facts off as true even if I’m not 100% sure whether or not they are, which is one of the reasons I started this blog in the first place.
You know how sometimes people use a generic name when they’re giving an example (i.e. “Any John Doe can do that puzzle”)? I was watching that documentary The Corporation yesterday and one of the guys was talking about deforestation or something and the generic name he gave was JOE BLOGGS! I was in such shock that I paused the movie and Maura and I looked at each other for about 30 seconds in disbelief, then I continued watching.
