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Old 12-12-2009, 09:23 PM   #17 (permalink)
mcguire
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Originally Posted by winkosmosis View Post
Most of the money is going to Canada, our #1 oil supplier.
True, but oil is a commodity with, to a first approximation, a single world market. The global price responds primarily to global demand. A better way to look at the economics of the situation is as a transfer between the oil producing countries and the oil consuming countries.
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