Another boring Saturday night?

Not so fast—there’s crude oil data to be studied!

According to the Department of Energy’s website, America imports A LOT of oil. I had never heard that before–just joking. But where are we getting it from? No, it’s not all coming from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Here are the Top 5 crude oil exporters to the US market (for February 2007):

• Canada - 1.838 million barrels per day
• Mexico - 1.358 million barrels per day
• Saudi Arabia - 1.185 million barrels per day
• Venezuela - 1.115 million barrels per day
• Nigeria - 1.061 million barrels per day

The US itself produces its own crude–and even exports some of it–to the tune of 5.196 million barrels per day (January 2007). Thus, the US and its two closest neighbors account for an average of 8.392 million barrels per day, or more that two thirds of the total coming from our Top 5 crude exporters and our US production facilities.

The American Fossil Fuel Lobby DID NOT fund this fifteen minutes of research ;^)