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Originally Posted by Rochard
The US doesn't get it's oil from Libya. Libya produces only two percent of the world's oil, nearly all of which goes to.... Europe.
The US gets most of it's oil from Canada and Mexico.
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That's correct.
Figured someone would reply as you did ... when it comes to protecting resources, one needs to consider the larger picture...
Libya is the excuse by which the U.S. can keep a powerful presence in that part of the world to ensure a steady supply of resources to the global power-elite (including many other places in addition to the U.S., such as China)...
Consider Iraq - it was never about their supply of oil per se (most of it never gets to the U.S.), but rather who would control it - and to further ensure that other oil producing nations toed the line and didn't cut out the U.S., such as, for example, by denominating oil in some other currency that's less favorable.
Ron