[the invisib1e hand]

Must be all the US money that we use to buy oil from Canada, our number 1 supplier.

I wouldn't have believed that stat had I not verified it at the DOE site.

However, as oil demand is correlated almost perfectly with economic activity, I assure you, we're not buying as much oil as we used to, or as we might.

[kabar]

About 2.5 million bbls a day ain’t chicken feed.