Oily Facts
Here's a link to an 'infoplease' webpage indicating the world's top oil producers, exporters, consumers and importers. Exhaustive in my efforts to bring you reliable information, here is the Wikipedia entry of top petroleum producing nations as well.
One would correctly assume that the United States is the top-consuming nation in the world, but did you know that we are the 3rd most prodigious producer, right after Saudi Arabia and Russia? We produce 8.69 million barrels a day but consume about 20.5, which means we import about 11.8.
Iraq, hitting the list at number 14, produces a measly 2.03 and exports even less, and Iran only coughs up 2.55 for export. Taking both country's total exports would still leave us almost eight million barrels a day short. Somebody's got to talk to George about mathematics and stuff 'cause we're definitely picking the wrong countries to steal oil from.
