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Originally Posted by Stan187
So in other words, we are not THAT depedent.
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Stan,
Where the supply of oil is concerned, it is not just that the US is comfortable with its strategic reserves.
When one looks at oil and reserves, one has to look at the same from the context of the US and its allies, including Japan.
Without the allies alongside the US, the policies that the US wants to apply, especially where intervention is required in a massive scale as in Iraq, may not be feasible. And such intervention requires oil.
That changes the perspective.
Since you are in Washington, could you check out as to whether the oil used by the US and the allies in Iraq is being shipped from the US itself. And if the figures of oil in the US tally is accounting for the oil that US forces are using worldwide.
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