The Daily Graphic: January U.S. Oil Imports
Courtesy of the Pickens Plan is the following graphic about how much oil we imported into the U.S. during the month of January. They get their numbers from the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
December 2008 Oil Imports Into the U.S.
Courtesy of the Pickens Plan’s new Monthly Oil Imports page is the animated gif below. In December 2008, the U.S. imported nearly 380 million barrels of oil. For the month, 66.5% of the oil we consumed came from foreign countries. We can’t let the temporarily low gasoline and home heating oil prices lull us to sleep on the need for a new energy economy. I believe the Pickens Plan represents a span in the bridge we will need to build to a new, greener, economy built on American self-reliance.
Oil Shock: Drilling for Answers on High Prices Part I of V
from The Washington Post
This Time, It’s Different
Global Pressures Have Converged to Forge a New Oil Reality
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 27, 2008; A01
The two events, half a world apart, went largely unheralded.
Early this month, Valero Energy in Texas got the unwelcome news that Mexico would be cutting supplies to one of the company’s Gulf Coast refineries by up to 15 percent. Mexico’s state-owned oil enterprise is one of Valero’s main sources of crude, but oil output from Mexican fields, including the giant Cantarell field, is drying up. Mexican sales of crude oil to the United States have plunged to their lowest level in more than a dozen years.
