Saudis Lowering Gas Prices in Nov. for Bush* re-election

[Holden McGroin]

A little surfing got these statistics for US national petroleum use as of 2002:

19.6MM barrels / day

46.6% imported

53.4% from United States
7.75% from Saudi Arabia
7.65% from Mexico
7.37% from Canada
6.13% from Venezuela

11.3% from Persian Gulf states
25.8% from non OPEC

[Nash]

Crude Oil Imports (Top 15 Countries)
(Thousand Barrels per Day)
Country Jan-04   Dec-03   YTD 2004   Jan-03   Jan - Dec 2003
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CANADA 1,626   1,663   1,626   1,621   1,547  
MEXICO   1,594   1,765   1,594   1,566   1,589
SAUDI ARABIA   1,432  1,399   1,432   1,820   1,724
VENEZUELA   1,298   1,323   1,298   399   1,193
NIGERIA   923   938   923   798   838
IRAQ   578   678   578   600   470

[strk]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
A little surfing got these statistics for US national petroleum use as of 2002:

19.6MM barrels / day

46.6% imported

53.4% from United States
7.75% from Saudi Arabia
7.65% from Mexico
7.37% from Canada
6.13% from Venezuela

11.3% from Persian Gulf states
25.8% from non OPEC

I see what you are getting at but you are ignoring market forces.  Once cheap saudi oil is available, do you think the ratios will remain the same?

[Holden McGroin]

I was just reporting the facts, as of 2002, Nash has some updates.

I came to no conclusion, and I suppose if cheap saudi crude was available, we would buy as much as we could up to the Saudi imposed production limit.

But it seems if we doubled imports from SA the effect would be largely buffered by the other 80% of the market.

[strk]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I was just reporting the facts, as of 2002, Nash has some updates.

I came to no conclusion, and I suppose if cheap saudi crude was available, we would buy as much as we could up to the Saudi imposed production limit.

But it seems if we doubled imports from SA the effect would be largely buffered by the other 80% of the market.

right and that 20% would be enough to lower overall prices wouldn't it?  And don't you think Saudi would be able to sell all the oil it could ship over here?

[Eagler]

strk

gotta say you have the funniest avatar going - LOL

didn't think it was serious until I realized you were a hater of this admin

too funny

[Arlo]

What does a pic of Tim Conway in "McHale's Navy" have to do with the admin?

[Torque]

Originally posted by Rude
Thats not correct.....it's not oil, but rather hot air and bull ****.

Carry on

Be nice now or no more soup for you.

[strk]

Originally posted by Eagler
strk

gotta say you have the funniest avatar going - LOL

didn't think it was serious until I realized you were a hater of this admin

too funny

I think it is an interesting comparison to the pic of Bush* in the TANG in his flight suit:

Real sailor vs pretend airman;

Decorated combat veteran vs. Daddy got me in the TANG and I didnt show up for a year;

volunteered to serve in Nam vs. checked Do Not Volunteer for Overseas duty. . . I could go on.

I'm glad you think it is funny.  I think Chimpy McFLightsuit is hilarious myself.  Except for the 700 dead soldiers and marines because of his lies about WMD in Iraq.

But I guess I'm not "cool" like you.

[storch]

while the loss of allied life in Iraq is indeed tragic, the US Policy since the 1998 "Iraqi Liberation Act" was the ouster of sodomy hooshisname and his lovely sonsabiotches.  Yes.  please look it up one of you google geniuses I'm too dumb to know how to do it.  The problem was that the previous administration was too busy with philandering and other boyish shenanigans to actually attend to the country's business.  It took Mr. "chimpy Mcflightsuit" to actually
a. bring some decorum and decency back to the oval office.
b. right all the horrible wrongs of eight long years of president clinton's mistakes and all the misdeeds of her husband billyjeff.
c. put a texas size hurting on the never took a baath party in iraq.

So do me favor, lighten up. We've not had it this good since "Ron (bedtime for bonzo) Reagan" was in office.  I predict a Bush victory, maybe not the landslide eagler wants,  but if they allow the servicemen's absentee votes to count then perhaps we won't have to use madam cleo to determine the outcome of this one.  Not that there was ever any question in my mind regarding the last one.

[lazs2]

so strk... I guess we can put you down for voting with the women for kerry this election?   gonna vote a straight nanny ticket or mix it up with some peace and freedom or green party girls?

lazs

[dweebespit]

Storch gets a gold star for that one.  



I'm so tired of the same anti-bush ramblings.  'bush lied', 'bush wasn't really in the airforce', 'bush gave political favors'.  What's amusing is that these are all the things that conservatives were able to proove about Clinton, but it was ok then.  Now they're just lead alone by JFK^2.

[TheDudeDVant]

Originally posted by lazs2
so strk... I guess we can put you down for voting with the women for kerry this election?   gonna vote a straight nanny ticket or mix it up with some peace and freedom or green party girls?

lazs

Lmao Lazs... how very... very.. (word searching)  normal of you...  Do you have these comments in a file somewhere that you can just cut'N'paste out of? You dont actually type the same thing over and over and over and over and over again do you?

dude

[lazs2]

so I guess we can put you down for the same?   it will make your mom happy I'm sure.

lazs

[TheDudeDVant]

Originally posted by lazs2
so I guess we can put you down for the same?   it will make your mom happy I'm sure.

lazs

Do you/did you make your mom happy? Im certain you did not slap her down and call here a puss pinko commie biatch, did you?? I dont think so..  My point is we do the things we do to make 'US' happy.. Why the need to goto the mom deal?

dude