most of the us oil comes from texas.
most of the us oil comes from texas.
where does most of the us oil come from?
texas
in addition, the us oil marketing hub at cushing was flooded with new oil because most new north american production from canada, north dakota, and texas converged at that point, and there was insufficient capacity to take it from there to refineries on the gulf coast, where half of us oil refinery capacity is located. the american pipeline system is designed to take imported oil from the gulf coast and texas to the refineries in the northern us, and the new oil was flowing in the opposite direction, toward the gulf coast. the price of west texas intermediate delivered at cushing, which is the main benchmark for us oil prices, fell to unprecedented low levels below other international benchmark oils such as brent crude and dubai crude. since the price of wti at cushing is usually quoted by us media as "the price of oil", this gave many americans a distorted view of world oil prices as being lower than they were, and the supply being better than it was internationally. canada used to be in a similar position to the us in that offshore oil was cheaper than domestic oil, so the oil pipelines used to run westward from the east coast to central canada, now they are being reversed to carry cheaper domestic oil sands production from alberta to the east coast.
oil sands
bullet::::1. however, from 2007 to 2011, us coal imports fell by 64%, and coal exports rose by 81%. as of 2011, coal exports from the us were eight times the tonnage of imports, and the us was the world's fourth-largest exporter of coal.









































bullet::::4. us oil reserves cannot be relied upon: us oil production in 2008 had been steadily declining since 1970.









































bullet::::1. from that point, us oil production rose rapidly during 2009–2013; us crude oil production for 2013 was 49% higher than that of 2008.
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