Hypocritic US calls on Europe to wean itself from Russian gas

[SvennoJ]

X1Gates said:

SvennoJ said:

BlkPaladin said:
Do not get how this is hypocritical.... Unless they think the US is addicted to Middle East Oil, which is a fallacy. The US gets 80% of its imported oil from Canada and Mexico most of the rest comes from "Europe", or drilled by European companies off of the various American territories. (As in North and South America). The US only get less then 1% of oil from the middle east.

Only 1% ?

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_m.htm

More like 23%, while Canada + Mexico comes to 48%

The US buys 1% but steals the other 22% from the middle east, that's why they are so quick to intervene under the guise of "humanatarian".

More like American oil companies drilling oil in Iraq and selling it to China. Now they want to sell it to Europe too.
Pretty smart strategy, make money of foreign oil without being all that dependent on it. Let someone else take that risk.