Kesher Talk

Boycotting terrorist oil: can we do it? Given the various proposals, among pundits and chain emails, to boycott certain companies in order to boycott certain countries, I asked energy reporter Mike Sultan to uncover the truth.

For your information, according to a Department of Energy report summarizing US crude oil imports for this past April ...

... the top five sources for US imported crude oil are ... Saudi Arabia, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Iraq.

Of the top 15 US crude importing companies ... four of them, Sunoco, Shell, Conoco, and Equiva, do not import crude oil from either Saudi Arabia or Iraq. (This was true at least for April, 2002 and for April, 2001 ... and bears continued watching.)

The data that I have does leave some gaps. Is Sunoco's remaining supply from Qatar or from crazed gun-toting Norway? Is Iran finding some way to sneak oil into our tanks?

For the data I have:

• Sunoco: .08% of its imports from Canada, the rest unaccounted for ...
• Shell: 77% of its imports from Mexico ...
• Conoco: 91% from a combo of Canada, Mexico and Venezuela ...
• Equiva: [which I've never heard of] .02% from Canada ... rest unaccounted for

With gas from Shell or Conoco and a hybrid vehicle, I hope to be able to tell the Saudis and Iraqis to go to ...

posted by Howard @ 6/17/2002 10:49:25 AM