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Oil is a complicated business both in terms of what comes out of the ground and the commercial relationships that have built up over the last 150 or so years.
The USA may be the largest producer of crude oil,
Oil Production by Country - Worldometer
List of world countries by Yearly Oil Production in million cubic feet (MMcf)www.worldometers.info
But it still needs to import substantial quantities of crude just to keep its refineries occupied. And what it produces as crude is currently not all capable of being refined in US refineries, or to produce all the end products in the quantities required. Hence the need for imports.
How much oil does the United States import (and why)?
About 60% of the crude oil that runs through U.S. refineries is extracted right here at home. However, our refineries run on many different types of crude oil, some of which we don’t produce here or can’t economically transport. In those cases, we use imports.www.afpm.org
"Re-tooling refineries to process solely U.S. crude oil (light crude) would cost billions — a risky investment that would take decades to permit, construct and eventually pay off. We lack the infrastructure (like pipelines) needed to cost effectively supply U.S crude oil and refined products to every region. Even if the economics of re-tooling our facilities worked, it can take close to a decade to permit and build pipelines in the United States."
So to be truly self sufficient in the longer term, the USA would need to invest heavily in refining and transportation capabilities and the US consumer will see the cost of many things increasing substantially.
It is a lot more complicated than Trumps call "Drill, baby, drill" at least in the short to medium term.
I'm shocked. Wait ....no. no I'm notRussia-Ukraine ceasefire flops again after hours of talks 'about nothing'
Talks in Saudi Arabia between delegations from the United States and Russia have again failed to produce a comprehensive ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv, although separate deals to cement an informal truce already in place in the Black Sea were signed.www.abc.net.au
I can understand your anger, but don't let it cloud your thinking. The US is the largest producer of oil in the world, and is probably self-sufficient in food.
You forget that a vast amount of US oil extraction is in Alaska and gets to the US through a crude oil pipeline in Canada. One small demo charge on each engine in just one pumping station and that stops immediately, America starts running out of fuel for their farm equipment, and stops being self sufficient on food. Alaska has no refineries and gets all its gasoline and diesel delivered by truck up the Alaska highway so that will free up a little for California. Alberta also exports fuel to the US and several provinces export natural gas to the US. According to some 40% of the east coasts electricity comes from Canada.
And as E EwenS says, the US is still forced to import certain types of crude in order to create certain products and much of that crude currently comes from Canada.
And if every export pipe line has every pump engine destroyed that is solely used to supply the US it will take years to replace them because no one holds a mass of spare engines.
And as for being self sufficient on food - Donald Trump is shopping for hundreds of millions of eggs
Plus a the vast majority of the labour used in the production of food within the USA uses foreign labour who are to a large degree not turning up for work as they are in significant danger of being deported if they do.
My money's on kompromat.
One hopes.Something tells me that the 'imposing' part is where this plan will crumble.....