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To: PCPOET7

Where did we get oil before that?


21 posted on 07/29/2016 10:57:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

The United States was the world’s largest producer of oil until well into the 1950’s. We didn’t buy oil from other people. They bought it from us.


23 posted on 07/29/2016 11:09:41 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: dp0622

the Balkans and all over Europe and Texas. the advantage of the middle east was the oil was easy to get to in the middle east.


26 posted on 07/29/2016 11:53:09 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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