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The US invented fracking. Arguably the US is energy independent. It has Texas, Canada and Venezuela. They never did discover any large oilfields in China desp
by expedition32 10mo ago
The US invented fracking.
Arguably the US is energy independent. It has Texas, Canada and Venezuela.
They never did discover any large oilfields in China despite decades of frantically searching for it.
- RobertoG 10mo ago"It has Texas, Canada and Venezuela", eh.. excuse me?
- Nevermark 10mo agoI thought the same thing, ... where is the "and Greenland!"? The amount of hard, soft and economic power that are being burned for the bedtime stories of one person is unreal. As are all the cooperators and lobby harnessing conspirators whose actual dreams are getting implemented. It isn't the fall of the USSR, but it is still a dramatic ceiling bounce.
- tick_tock_tick 10mo agoI mean Venezuela is a touch iffy on how strongly we commit but saying the USA basically owns Canada isn't exactly controversial maybe controls is a more acceptable way of phrasing it? They are a "sovereign" with a lowercase S at best.
- jacquesm 10mo agoThe US does not have Venezuela.
- lateforwork 10mo agoIt does. It may be illegal, immoral etc., but it does as of now.
- tehjoker 10mo agoThe Bolivarian revolution kicked us out before, they can do it again.
- esseph 10mo agoAlaska
- NickC25 10mo agoCanada fucking hates the US right now and are actively in discussions to deepen their relationship with China, and cut back on their relationship with the US. I don't blame them.
- badc0ffee 10mo agoCanada is actively pursuing more pipeline capacity to the west coast, in order to sell more oil to China. However, it's also true that if the US builds a new pipeline to the Canadian border, Canada will happily fill it with heavy crude.
- tick_tock_tick 10mo agoI mean the problem with the bed Canada has made is they don't really get a choice.
- m4ck_ 10mo agoWe're only energy independent in the sense that we export more oil than we import. We're still reliant on foreign oil because we haven't retooled (or built enough new) refineries for a lot of the oil we produce. Allowing the Saudis to own refineries is probably a strong factor there. If the middle east and Canada cut us off, we're SOL. Venezuela barely produces anything right now.
- OkayPhysicist 10mo agoRetooling refineries to a different flavor of crude is expensive, but not that expensive. If push came to shove, the US could transition to oil independence in less than a year.