U.S. - The Super Country

June 5, 2008 8:21 pm J. Alden Page Society

My neighbors are from Kazakhstan, they are touring the U.S. for about a year before returning to college in their country.  They live in various locations for a couple of months at a time, find jobs, and learn about the area.

Janna(Zhanna) is majoring in political science in Kazakhstan.  She said something very interesting the other day.

She said that the U.S. has all the oil that it needs underneath it’s feet, and that it exports large amount of oil.  I thought she was wrong. However, after doing some research, I was suprised to find that the U.S. does export very large amounts of oil. In fact, we are one of the world largest exporters. According to cia.gov, we rank in the top 20.

We are playing a game.  In this game we bully other countries into selling us their oil for cheap, and then we sell our oil for as much as we can.  This results in massive profit for oil companies and crooked politicians.

Her explanation was that the U.S. is trying to be a “Super Country”.   We are trying to control everything, and have the best and most of everything.

Next time you go to the gas pump, think about all the oil we are exporting. The price is going up because we are running out of oil. Remember?  Which is why exporting what we have is a good idea.

We might not have enough oil to have no imports, but it would definitely lower the price if companies weren’t exporting our oil.

I know this isn’t scifi related, but I think it is important. I think it is something that most people don’t know. It’s certainly something that I didn’t know.

*Update*

I was asked to prove the claim that the U.S. is one of the top 20 exporters:   https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2176rank.html.

Unfortunately, the most recent data for the U.S. is from 2004.

Iraq only ranks four spots above the U.S., with 1,670,000 barrels exported per day instead of 1,048,000.