CBC: Most Americans don't know Canada is their biggest oil supplier

[Newsjock]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2006/06/27/energy.html

A new poll suggests the vast majority of Americans are unaware that Canada is the largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the U.S.

The Canadian American Business Council (CABC) — which represents some of the biggest private sector companies in both countries — said its survey of 1,000 Americans found that only four per cent of respondents thought Canada was the country that provided them with more oil than anyone else.

The survey also found that 41 per cent of Americans asked would support replacing oil from unstable areas of the world with oil from Canada "even if doing so resulted in higher prices for U.S. consumers."

... The release of this poll came just as energy-rich Alberta launched a massive lobbying effort in Washington to get across its message that Canada — and especially Alberta — has a stable and secure supply of oil that it's eager to sell the U.S.

[IndyOp]

1. Ignorant.

Me, I am saying, I am ignorant.

:spank:

Canada?

:dunce:

[Ariana Celeste]

15. I didn't know.

Learn something new everyday, eh? :hi:

[Terran1212]

2. my sister the International affairs major and homeland security employee

Told me a while back it was Venezuela.

...

>_>

[IndyOp]

3. National Resource Defense Council says Canadian oil is not a good idea...

SMITHSONIAN TO HOST INDUSTRY-SPONSORED EXHIBIT ON TAR SANDS OIL PRODUCTION
Environmental Consequences Are Ignored, Says NRDC

<snip>

Although still in its infancy, the mining of tar sands already is Canada's single-largest contribution to global warming. The Alberta tar sands are found under a region of boreal forest and wetlands larger than the state of Florida. Tar sands is a mixture of 85 percent sand, clay and silt; 5 percent water; and 10 percent bitumen -- a tar-like substance that can be converted to oil. Producing oil from the tar sands generates 2.5 times as much heat-trapping gases as conventional oil production. Mining and drilling of the heavy oil also threatens to contaminate ground water and turn the boreal forest and wetlands into wastelands.

<snip>

The world's thirst for oil is leading to an unprecedented mining and drilling of the heavy oil, or bitumen, in the tar sands of Alberta's boreal forest in Canada, a destructive practice that looms as an environmental catastrophe of widespread proportions.

Today, most tar sands oil production results in vast open-pit mines, some as large as three miles wide and 200 feet deep. Only a small fraction of bitumen deposits are close enough to the surface to be mined. The bulk of the established reserves (81 percent) are deeper and must be extracted by injecting high-pressure steam into the ground to soften the bitumen so it can be piped out.

Such reserves make Canada second in the world in oil reserves, after Saudi Arabia. Already, production of oil from Alberta's tar sands has more than doubled, to approximately 1.1 million barrels daily from 1995 to 2004. And that expansion is projected to reach as much as 4.4 million barrels per day by 2015, according to a new study by the Canadian National Energy Board.

http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/060607.asp

[napi21]

4. I admit I didn't know that! The MSM keeps telling everyone it's

the Middle East, Venesuela, Mexico....everybody but Canada!

We need to push this into the MSM if it's really true!

How many Pubs think the US would literally die without the folks they THINK are the biggest suppliers?

[TexasLawyer]

5. Here is the Dept. of Energy data on this

{Mods-- this is public data)

Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries

April 2006 Import Highlights: Released on June 12, 2006

Preliminary monthly data on the origins of crude oil imports in April 2006 has been released and it shows that two countries have exported more than 1.60 million barrels per day to the United States. Including those countries, a total of five countries exported over 1.00 million barrels per day of crude oil to the United States (see table below).

The top sources of US crude oil imports for April were Canada (1.710 million barrels per day), Mexico (1.601 million barrels per day), Saudi Arabia (1.582 million barrels per day), Venezuela (1.171 million barrels per day), and Nigeria (1.022 million barrels per day). The rest of the top ten sources, in order, were Iraq (0.531 million barrels per day), Angola (0.338 million barrels per day), Ecuador (0.312 million barrels per day), Algeria (0.256 million barrels per day), and Kuwait (0.225 million barrels per day). Total crude oil imports averaged 9.781 million barrels per day in April, which is a decrease of 0.047 million barrels per day from March 2006. The top five exporting countries accounted for 73 percent of United States crude oil imports in April and the top ten sources accounted for approximately 89 percent of all U.S. crude oil imports.

Canada was the largest exporter of total petroleum products in April, which continues to be the case in 2006 thus far, exporting 2.223 million barrels per day to the United States. That is slightly below the year to date average for Canada (2.254 million barrels per day). The second largest exporter of total petroleum products again this month was Mexico (1.749 million barrels per day) which was a decrease from last month of 0.052 million barrels per day. Algeria had a bit of a decrease in crude oil exports, but a solid increase in total petroleum exports to the U.S. when compared to volumes last month.

Crude Oil Imports (Top 15 Countries)
(Thousand Barrels per Day)

Country Apr-06 Mar-06 YTD 2006 Apr-05 Jan - Apr 2005

CANADA 1,710 1,716 1,726 1,676 1,551
MEXICO 1,601 1,697 1,692 1,541 1,510
SAUDI ARABIA 1,582 1,322 1,413 1,449 1,533
VENEZUELA 1,171 1,183 1,190 1,391 1,352
NIGERIA 1,022 1,114 1,149 1,130 1,030
IRAQ 531 476 498 542 522
ANGOLA 338 510 433 365 461
ECUADOR 312 242 288 240 302
ALGERIA 256 281 235 232 182
KUWAIT 225 111 139 164 179
UNITED KINGDOM 169 145 108 256 225
COLOMBIA 149 170 154 183 128
BRAZIL 111 123 114 36 38
CHAD 82 84 79 75 74
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 80 52 63 87 64

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

[AlamoDemoc]

6. most Americans (omission) don't know that Canada has signed onto Kyoto

...under the Liberal government. But now the Harper government and the premier of Alberta Mr. Klein are undermining the Canadian will and the rest of the other providences not to join into the world under Kyoto. Quebec and Ontario both providences have agreed into Kyoto agreement under the last Liberal government, whilst Mr. Harper and his conservative government side with conservative Mr. Klein of ALBERTA. Mr. Klein and his cohorts in the oil industry are digging and extracting sand from oil areas equivalent to Rhode Island or Maryland landscape, deep onto the ground which leaves empty downright deep empty useless whole that no one will ever be able to inhabit.

[ClusterFreak]

7. The American M.S.M. tamps down virtually all news about Canada....

...unless they want to try and: 1) makes us look bad (i.e. the seal hunt, liberal pot laws, we're a terror-training hot-bed) or 2) make us look quaint (i.e. hockey playing, maple syrup-drinking, Anne of Green Gables-loving Mounties).

It's really quite pathetic, and deliberate, and petty.

[Endangered Specie]

8. They are also a very large importer of Stanley Cups to the states

:evilgrin:

[HuffleClaw]

14. bwahhaahahhhaaaaa

but seriously. ouch.

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

18. ....and the hockey players that win the Stanley Cups ;) n/t

[Spazito]

23. LOL, Perfect and very right!

:thumbsup:

[Lautremont]

9. And for god's sake let's keep it that way!

I'm Canadian, and I prefer it unoccupied by imperialist adventurers, thank you very much.

(I know - it was founded by imperialists, and they run it still.)

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. We also supply one heck of a lot of hydro-electricity as well as

.
.
.

Natural gas that fires turbines for a clean source of electricity from coast to coast in the USA

Our "Trans-Canada" pipeline is a misnomer . . .

Most of our gas goes straigt down to Washington on the West Coast, then all away across Canada into New York state

So it's more of a "trans_country" pipeline

Previous leaders of our country committed x amount of supply for decades, soon to be renegotiated starting in 2008

Now,

I wonder why some USA admins are starting to call Canada a "collection cesspool for terrorists"

hmmmm

I have a hard time dealing with coincidences

BUT

try to invade Canada (again) ?

Iraq IS a cakewalk by comparison

Dat's my Canuk thots anyhoo . . . .

[Skink]

11. Maybe we're buildin that fence on the wrong side.

[tanyev]

22. It wouldn't surprise me if they eventually built a fence up north, too.

Except by that time it will be to keep Americans in.

[CHIMO]

12. All things Albertan focus of Smithsonian festival

One of the world's most prestigious museums is mounting a two-week festival that showcases all things Albertan.

It's the first time a Canadian province has been featured at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, a project of the Smithsonian Institute.

Alberta is pulling out all the stops in an attempt to make an impact on the U.S. capital.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2006/06/27/alberta-smithsonian.html


Alberta posts $8.7-billion surplus

Alberta has posted an $8.7-billion surplus, the largest ever, as it continues to ride the wave of high energy revenues.

Most of that money is already committed to a wide range of construction projects and education endowments, but there is still $2.7 billion available for new projects.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2006/06/26/alberta-surplus.html

And now for the rest of the story.

Catholic schools cut funds to all grades

Edmonton's Catholic school trustees have ordered cuts and hiked the fees for school-bus passes in a bid to balance their books, but warn that the moves may not be enough to avoid layoffs.

As the trustees passed a $273-million budget for the upcoming school year on Monday night, they voted to take $1.5 million from kindergarten to Grade 12 budgets in order to be able to continue severe special-needs programs.

This means that schools will receive about $23 less for each student in those grades.

The Catholic school trustees said they needed to make the move because the provincial government's three-per-cent increase to the Basic Education Grant wasn't enough.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2006/06/27/catholic-budget.html

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

19. I lived in Calgary Alberta in the late 90s

Beautiful place.
Clean city, nice parks, the best sewer system in the world, apparently.(Heard that on the BBc of all places)
Calgary had 800,000 or so residents at the time and about 1500 residents a month moving in.The economy was booming.
Meanwhile the city was laying off senior school teachers & nurses en masse and closing hospitals.


:shrug:

[mitchum]

13. mitchum: Most Americans are fucking idiots

[CAG]

16. But we DO know Britney's preggo again! nt

[Up2Late]

17. I bet even fewer know that Mexico is #2 and Venezuela's #3

Here's the top 5 <http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_neti_a_EP00_IMN_mbblpd_m.htm>

(Monthly Thousands of Barrels per day)
Nov-05/ Dec-05/ Jan-06/ Feb-06/ Mar-06/ Apr-06

Canada
2,102/ 2,408/ 2,159/ 2,144/ 2,084/ 2,112

Mexico
1,554/ 1,487/ 1,581/ 1,611/ 1,507/ 1,443

Venezuela
1,237/ 1,485/ 1,512/ 1,453/ 1,505/ 1,349

Saudi Arabia
1,368/ 1,471/ 1,368/ 1,451/ 1,358/ 1,592

Nigeria
1,246/ 1,246/ 1,185/ 1,366/ 1,194/ 1,097

[LynnTheDem]

20. Good. Let's keep it that way.

I'd prefer to not have to kill American invaders & occupiers.

[Solly Mack]

21. I watched a news show on oil/tar sands several days ago

pros/cons/what it was/how it was mined/how it was sifted-extracted(bitumen)/how much money was to be made by workers(there's a labor shortage and it's BIG money -120K a year to start)/the devastation mining left behind(horrible)/oil companies regrowth plan(10-20 year recovery per "mine")/"Big Hat" Canadians on parade (Canadians dressed in cowboy hats, boots, riding on horses and talking up their "oil barons" ala Texas-style - this was the description they gave themselves)

So, I knew...lol

But, had they asked before the show I would have ranked Canada in the top 3 but not number 1. I knew we bought a lot from Canada though. I'd have put Venezuela first...which, btw, along with Canada, has the largest amounts of tar sands - the bulk being in Alberta