What if the USA had a monopoly on the world's oil supply?

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:49 pm

Cuda wrote:
Martyred wrote:
I don't renounce socialism, and for the record, I'm an Anarcho-Syndicalist.
Translation: Bolshevist.

You're still a State-Worshipper

Let my record stand for itself.

Canadian · Post by **Canadian** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:08 am

Most Americans do not realize they get most of their oil from Canada then Mexico and only 6% from the middle east.

As long as Stephen Harper continues to Georgies submissive little bitch America will not have to worry about running out of oil.

What is weird is Canada exports so much to the US we have to still import a million barrels of oil......

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:45 pm

Canadian wrote:Most Americans do not realize they get most of their oil from Canada then Mexico and only 6% from the middle east.

They don't realize that, because it's not true.

Well, I suppose it depends on your definition of "most"... maybe that means something different in Upper Mexico.

canada is the single largest supplier of imported crude.

But here in the US of A, we don't consider ~25% to be "most."

And the most recent import figures show that Saudi Arabia alone provides about 14% of American imports. This doesn't speak well of the canadians' level of education in math.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:59 pm

You are wrong about everything, Dins.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:03 pm

Martyred wrote:You are wrong about everything, Dins.

If being non-canadian is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:20 pm

BTW -- according to the US Department of Energy's figures for October, the US imported 9.774 millions of barrels of crude per day, 1.887 of which came from canada.

Don't know how they teach percentage calculation in Upper Mexico, but here in the USA, we take the total munber of units and divide it by the number of units we wish to determine the percentage for.

Like this --

1.887(million, canada's total) divided by 9.774(million, which was the total imports)

1.887/9.774 = ~0.193

We then move the decimal over two places, which converts the figure to a portion of 100, rather than a portion of 1, which gives us 19.3%.

Here in the USA, the definition of "most" means a majority, which would be a figure greater than 50%. Here in the US, we consider 19 to be < 50.

This revelation of canadian math skills suddenly calls the figures for US/canadian exchange rates into question.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:36 pm

^^^ That's gonna leave a mark

Not like reindeer cock ripping apart Y2K's sphincter, but a mark nonetheless

Ooof

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:45 pm

Dinsdale wrote: This revelation of canadian math skills suddenly calls the figures for US/canadian exchange rates into question.

You caught Canadian in a slip between most and more. Whoop-de-fucking-do.

Watch out, Canadian, Dins is a drug dealing hard-ass who just might take time out from listening to the world's most
dangerous music to drop a slug in your dome. You've been warned.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:47 pm

Martyred wrote:...the world's more dangerous music...

FTFM

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:54 pm

Martyred wrote:
Watch out, Canadian, Dins is a drug dealing hard-ass who just might take time out from listening to the world's most
dangerous music to drop a slug in your dome. You've been warned.

Oil is not a drug, regardless what Chimpy might think.