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**retTreftowhexm** · 12-20-2007, 01:07 PM

The US gets a pittance of oil from the middle east... The EU and China get thier oil from the ME, not the US. The US gets its oil from Mexico and S.America. On a side note, not that it is a certainty, but the new energy bill that was passed by congress and due to be signed should effectively cut out US dependency on ME oil in the future, as the combination of MPG efficiancy and mandated ethanol increases will account for 4 million barrels of oil a day decrease, double what the ME is capable of producing per day.

unfortunately that energy bill doesn't go far enough to regulate emissions and now the EPA has denied states the authority to enforce their own tougher standards.

12-20-2007, 01:07 PM	#10
retTreftowhexm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	The US gets a pittance of oil from the middle east... The EU and China get thier oil from the ME, not the US. The US gets its oil from Mexico and S.America. On a side note, not that it is a certainty, but the new energy bill that was passed by congress and due to be signed should effectively cut out US dependency on ME oil in the future, as the combination of MPG efficiancy and mandated ethanol increases will account for 4 million barrels of oil a day decrease, double what the ME is capable of producing per day. unfortunately that energy bill doesn't go far enough to regulate emissions and now the EPA has denied states the authority to enforce their own tougher standards.
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