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Michael considered fate at 16:04   |   Permalink   |   Post a Comment

And to further the arguement:

According to the US Dept. of Energy petroleum import reports, Arab OPEC countries supplied a cumulative average of 28% of the US's total petroleum imports since 1972. Oil imports from OPEC countries in general have oscillated between 45% and 55% of total imports. Imports from Arab OPEC countries were as low as 9% in 1985 and as high as 47% in 1980. More recently, since the early 1990's, Arab OPEC countries have supplied the US between 20 and 27% of its total petroleum imports. Of this, Saudi Arabia supplies the most. During 2001, Saudi Arabia's portion of the total US petroleum imports was roughly 14%. The gulf region as a whole provided about 18% of the total petroleum imports to the US during that same year.