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In fairness to the US intelligence agencies, this might have been a verification of their claims since they are looking fairly aggressively for oil sources outs
by ianstallings 13y ago
In fairness to the US intelligence agencies, this might have been a verification of their claims since they are looking fairly aggressively for oil sources outside of the middle east. The President or higher ups in the DoD would seek this information for a lot of reasons. Unfortunately people are distrustful because our country has taken so much unscrupulous action for energy in the past.
- knowaveragejoe 13y agoIn 2012, the US imported 40% of their oil. Of that, 13% is from the middle east. The middle east hasn't had the lions share of US oil consumption for quite some time. http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150444802/where-does-america-get-oil-you-may-be-surprised http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150444802/where-does-america-g...
- ianstallings 13y agoYes that's actually the reason I mentioned this. When GWB was in office they started looking for other sources outside of the ME and we get most of our imported oil from Africa now AFAIK. Brazil could be part of that push.