Re: Where do we get our crude?


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Posted by David Sherman [24.32.202.83] on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 20:48:06 :

In Reply to: Re: Where do we get our crude? posted by clueless [201.197.231.58] on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 19:47:15 :

I know that at least during the heyday of shipping North Slope oil out of Valdez, I always heard that most of it went to Japan. I think a little bit went to Cherry Point (Washington State), but the economics of transport were such that it made more $en$e to sell North Slope oil to Japan and import Arabian oil to the US East Coast. I'm not sure what the situation is now that the North Slope is winding down. Presumably if they start drilling the ANWR, that oil will go through the Pipeline and it might well end up getting sold to Japan or China too.

This kind of thing is why it's not so simple as "drill more US oil!". Unless you want to ban oil companies from selling to the highest bidder, we're going to be exporting and importing at the same time, in different parts of the country. Personally, I think the US' best hope is Fischer-Tropsch oil since we have lots of coal. Also, variations on the Fischer-Tropsch process can make oil from natural gas or even from garbage and ag waste. The break-even point is somewhere around $50/barrel. The trouble is that these are still CO2-emitting energy sources and if the world decides to essentially stop anything that emits CO2, then anything based on coal, oil, or gas is verboten and I guess we'll have to play around with solar cells and bicycles for a while until we decide that fossil fuels weren't so bad after all.



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