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Originally Posted by fintstone
.... oil refined in the U.S. might well still have originated elsewhere. Oil and gasoline are two different things. Even when we imported much of our oil, it was as crude, not gasoline, was it not? Saudi Arabia was among the top five source countries of U.S. petroleum imports in 2014 (along with Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Iraq).
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Yes... I mentioned both crude oil and finished gasoline. Saudi may be one of the top five sources of imported oil, but it is still a small percentage of the overall oil requirement in America. Only 13% of crude oil used in America comes from Saudi.
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I didn't see a date for the story in the OP. How do you know it was post 2011?
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I don't, but even when we imported finished gasoline from Saudi, it peaked at around 750,000 barrels annually - not much considering the 3,260,000,000 billion barrels we use per year (.023%)