Fascinating paragraph, near the end of the article, on non-Arab U.S. oil suppliers:
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Or Venezuela: The United States receives 13 percent of its daily oil imports from Venezuela, slightly less than our imports from Saudi Arabia.
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More recently, Chavez suddenly increased taxes on foreign oil producers from one percent to 17 percent, claiming that "We are no longer going to give away our oil." Venezuela produces 2.99 million barrels of oil per day and holds 6.8 percent of the world's proven oil reserves.
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I'd no idea that Venezuela supplied so much oil to the US, and I lived there for over a year!
*edit* Asked a stupid question which I answered myself 30 secs after posting
[ 11-01-2004, 08:20 PM: Message edited by: aleph_null1 ]