Marti Oakley (c) copyright 2012
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While we struggle as a nation to stay on our feet despite the mismanagement of our national debt and the number of people sliding into poverty as a result of fascism, one of the greatest scams of all times has unfolded right before our very eyes. This scam only slightly more disgusting than the global warming/climate change/man-made climate change, or whatever the current and ever changing buzzword is this week to describe “weather” patterns. Now we have “dependence on foreign oil”….Yep! That’s the one!
One of the greatest all-time scams perpetrated by the oil cartels and our government is the idea that we do not produce enough gas and oil products to make us energy independent. The fact is, we do and we always have.
According to various reports, the export of fuel in 2011 from U.S. refiners topped the markets at 117 million gallons per day of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other petroleum products, up from 40 million gallons per day a decade earlier. For the first time in our history gas and oil EXPORTS were the top of the export list although they have been in the top ten exports for years!
Wait a minute! I thought we needed to drill more! I thought we didn’t have enough gas and oil produced domestically for us to be independent from foreign oil imports! But we got 117 million gallons of refined fuels to ship out to other countries every single day of the week? 365 days a year?
Gasoline supplies are being exported to the highest bidder, says Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service. “It’s a world market,” he says.
This just begs so many questions. How could we possibly be dependent on foreign oil if we can ship 117 million gallons a day out of the country, never to return, of products the public thinks is in short supply right here at home?
If we are importing back into the country, 98 million gallons less per year, than we shipped out…..who is actually dependent on whom for these products?
And finally: What is the point in shipping out products supposedly in short supply here at home and simultaneously shipping the same products back into the US but those products now produced in other countries which is now costing us more money?
Still think we need to frack, drill and contaminate groundwater supplies to produce energy? Do you still think there will be no gas at the pump if we don’t allow BP back into the Gulf to do more damage?
Only a small portion of the gas and oil produced here in the US, stays in the US. The bulk of crude is delivered to the global markets as per our agreement with OPEC. Whatever is produced here must be delivered to that market so that oil producers do not step on any OPEC toes and so that OPEC does not dump the failing US dollar. All OPEC production is done using the dollar. It is then bid on by other countries in that market including us. Do not confuse crude production with refined oil and gas products.
In the first ten months of 2011, US refiners exported 848 million barrels (worth $73.4 billion) of refined fuels (not crude) and imported 750 million barrels of the same products from OPEC. That means that we sent out 98 million barrels MORE than what we brought back in.
We are NOT dependent on foreign oil! We are being played by the oil cartels and our own government. As long as they can keep the public convinced that we don’t produce enough to meet our energy needs, we will continue to accept high fuel prices while we get gouged really good. The domestic supply is shorted so that the reserves we should have on hand for energy security and independence are diminished. This translates into artificially inflated market prices based on a massive and ongoing deception. You pay for that.
Another part of this scam is the constant hand wringing regarding our “aging refineries” and the fact that we have built no new refineries for more than twenty years. I’m guessing we don’t need any new refineries if we are refining so much oil right now that we can ship 117 million barrels of refined products out of the country each day while still contributing to US demands. But here again: If we can, with our aging refineries manage to ship out more refined products than the country needs, apparently the refineries we have are humming right along.
While we are hammered incessantly with TV ads and government reports stating that unless we allow oil cartels to frack us into oblivion by drilling far underground (even under your home, schools, hospitals, and into watersheds) we will continue to be dependent on foreign imports of natural gas. Yet no one wants to talk about the Ruby pipeline that cuts across the Northern plains states that will end up being pumped into tankers headed for Asian markets (China). Most folks think if we allow fracking to continue or expand, that somehow all that natural gas will end up in their furnace and the cost will go down when in fact, the more they frack the higher your bill is because exports will increase while imports of natural gas back into the country will also increase.
The increased release of massive amounts of methane gas driven out of the ground should not be a cause for concern as the EPA has a handle on that. According to them, it isn’t fracking or drilling that causes the increase in methane…its cow farts. Yes! That’s right folks! The EPA is dead serious about the hazards of cow emissions.
How ‘bout that Keystone pipeline? Why! It will create thousands of jobs…….and reduce our dependence on imported oil. Well, sure it will. The Keystone pipeline has not one thing to do with making us energy independent. All, and I mean ALL that pipeline produces will be shipped out as quickly as they can get the pipeline flowing. This pipeline isn’t going to help make us energy independent and it isn’t going to reduce consumer prices nor will it increase reserves. But, we will be left with the massive damage to the environment, contaminated water supplies and air quality.
As for the damage? Not to worry, EPA has that covered too. Oil and gas companies are exempted totally from compliance with the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and from any environmental impact studies and cannot be prosecuted for the damage they do.
Now……don’t you feel better?
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http://www.chron.com/news/article/In-a-first-gas-and-other-fuels-are-top-US-export-2433211.php
Feb 20, 2015 @ 09:34:59
the scam is that we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil by burning all of our own domestic oil. How dumb is that. The more of our own oil that we burn, the more we become dependent on foreign oil. If we burn all our oil, then we will be totally dependent on foreign oil. If we buy all the foreign oil, then we will no longer depend on it.
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Feb 17, 2012 @ 08:54:19
@raccoon
The technologies you describe are for the production of electricity. Why would the coal and gas companies spend money to advance tech that would put them out of business? The oil companies don’t generate electricity so they don’t care either. BTW, the solution to the worlds energy needs has already been invented, Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors.
http://energyfromthorium.com/
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Feb 14, 2012 @ 14:19:20
Anyone willing to learn from history could look up the campaign to rid the U.S. of street cars and railroads to improve the market for petroleum products.
Brought to you in living color by your friendly oil company (Shell, Texaco, Mobil, the rest.)
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Feb 14, 2012 @ 04:59:37
This writer asked an oil company engineer about the refinery gap, as noted above, he responded in no uncertain terms that this was indeed a myth and that existing refineries are continually expanded and modernized. When you think about it, this makes sense from a practical engineering and business standpoint and a public relations one .
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Feb 13, 2012 @ 23:46:16
As stated in the first 10 months of 2011, the difference between export and imports in barrels appears in gallons, which is a smaller unit of measure.-
The US has a much greater refining capacity than any other country so, as several oil producers are lacking in that capacity, oil corps find convenient to send the crude to US and then export the refined products, notwithstanding commercial agreements.-
Local crude production and crude import amounts are the first raw figures to take into account, nevertheless, as crude quality varies according to the sulfur contained, imports of lighter oil (with less sulfur) are always in demand, as not all domestic oil has the light quality available in Texas.-
In spite of the previous reamrks, I find yours a very interesting posting, as the oil industry must be always under the spotlight for its record of manipulative and grievous actions all over the World.-
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Feb 13, 2012 @ 21:28:14
The government doesn’t care what we know. They know we can do nothing about it. You notice all the oil pumping things in the fields you’ll notice many are not being used,because they don’t need the oil. The government loves high oil prices. The only way to take control of this country is for common people to take office for one year and then replaced. This way the bankers and corporations can’t control the career politicians. They got cushy jobs and will lie and kiss the bankers to keep them.
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Feb 13, 2012 @ 21:25:53
where is all that Iraki oil going? you know, the oil that was going to pay for the war (after USA stole it from Irakis to turnover to whom …)
hint: it’s on the way to China and some little nation, full of bullies, but no known oil reserves, now has many new billionaire oil barrons
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Feb 13, 2012 @ 19:50:25
I stopped getting angry at the system. I used to be an idealist, and anything form of waste or inefficiency was frustrating for me. Now I realize that creating waste is a good way for politcally connected insiders to make a lot of money at the general public’s expense. If this stuff really bothers you, you need to target the central international bankers. The biggest scam in the history of the world is fiat currencies and the way they do fractional reserve (ponzi) banking and lending. These are the real demons…the filthy bankers.
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Dependence on foreign oil and other oil industry hoaxes and scams « A Nation Beguiled
Feb 13, 2012 @ 10:24:46
Feb 13, 2012 @ 07:44:40
We are at the end of the age of oil. No point in any hand wringing around it. Whether Hubbert Peaked or did not, oil has been a terrible, wasteful, polluting and dangerous source of energy.
The alternatives are all waiting in the wings…
Vivek
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/watershed-day-may-this-pour-through-a-million-pairs-of-eyes/
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Feb 13, 2012 @ 05:15:28
I can see that when you refer to the first 10 months of 2011 you state the imports and exports in barrels and substract the difference in gallons, a different unit of measure.-
Also, the US has a refining capacity much more larger than many oil porducers and exporters, so it is a natural oil industry procedure to bring crude to be refined in the US, and then export the refined fuels.-
Domestic crude production must be the first figure to determine how far or how close is the US able to satisfy its own needs, and then include imports and exports.-
As crude oil has different quality, according to the sulfur contained, and the country of origin, imports are indispensable to achieve certain refined products, irrespective of the fact that local US production, grossly measured could indicate self-sufficiency, notwithstanding commercial agreements motivated exports and imports of refined products.-
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Feb 13, 2012 @ 05:02:45
Even though this wouldnt suprise me if it’s true. I’d rather live in this country than most others
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Feb 13, 2012 @ 04:58:07
The 117 million gallons a day of gasoline etc … it is all refined oil, but where does the oil come from? America has a lot of refinaries, which Europe is lacking. So “America” imports the oil, refines the oil, and sells it to Europe for instance, making huge profits from just chemical processing.
But indeed we could have fossil fuel independence a long time ago, if only 10 percent of the gigantic profits of the fossil fuel industry had been spend on R&D of fusion (LENR), solar, and other ‘you name it’ energy conversion technology, during the last 70 years. We have become a race of slaves, controlled by a few über-rats.
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Feb 13, 2012 @ 03:58:07
‘We’ are not shipping oil overseas because ‘we’ don’t own it! Some corporation owns it .Why should they be concerned with national interest above profit?
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Feb 12, 2012 @ 22:26:44
What’s new. Lies, lies, and more lies.
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Feb 12, 2012 @ 15:52:50
Every teacherous, insidious, Scheme; that the Communist Czars; of the Obamination Trojan Horse, Tactical Deployment, Militaristic STRIKE FORCE in the Whitehouse CONcocts: has the “DESTRUCTION of America” at IT’s Satanic Evil Core!
As the JOB KILLING forcing, of Canada, to sell It’s Gas and Oil; to China, is meant specifically: to EXPOSE America to Clear and Present Dangerous deviced HAZARDS, crafted to Put America: at further: Pharisean, Chadean, Cainaanite, Zionist Communist ENSLVEMENTS, to Our Enemies!
The TREASONS of in-Direct ATTACKS, on America, using REVOLUTIONARY Economically Deadly Implosions, as ONE of a cadre of “WEAPONS, of Mass DESTUCTION,” Is alone: Grounds to IMPEACH, IM-PRISON, and EXTERMIATE this CANCEROUS Satanic CURSE !
Pray for DEVINE Interventions!
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