Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tim, Fossil Fuels include natural gas, coal and crude oil. But even with respect to crude oil only 35% of the US supply comes from the Middle East. The three largest foreign supplier's of fossil fuels to the US are: Canada, Mexico and Venezuela. Fourth largest was Nigeria and currently Nigeria supplies more crude oil of course then Venezuela. Natural gas imports to the US from Canada come primarily from the Western Sedimentary Basin (Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan) and new reserves and not being found here fast enough, at the present time, to sustain current producing rates. US importation of water from Canada scares me more than crude oil and natural gas. I think your DOE stats are out of date...by several years. Regards, Greg Tim Atherton wrote: >>The majority of the US's fossil fuel needs are sourced from elsewhere in >>the world other than the Middle East. >> > > >According to the DOE, the US gets more oil from Saudi Arabia and Iraq >combined than any other source - after that is Canada, Mexico, then >Venezuala (oops - no oil!). > >The middle east is still the biggest single source of US oil (Canada is the >biggest single supplier by country - gee - we provide the biggest single >chunk of US oil, huge chunks of US electricity AND a large amount of water >to the US. I wonder what would happen if we decided to cut back...?) > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html