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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Steve203 ⎊❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: 80 Bux!
Date: 03/05/26 5:43 PM
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Nope. Canada ships its oil to those northern refineries via pipeline. There are ZERO pipelines going to those refineries from the south because they were not needed.

That is a negative. Significant volume of Canadian heavy goes to the US Gulf Coast, PADD 3, for refining.

While this chart, from 2024, shows significant Mexican crude going to PADD 3, Trump the God did not exempt Mexican crude from his spite tariffs, like he did Canadian. So much of the Mexican is now going elsewhere.

U.S. Refineries and Canadian Crude Oil

instituteforenergyresearch.org - U s refineries and canadian crude oil

One of the large PADD 3 buyers of Canadian, Valero, is now buying Venezuelan, thanks to the intervention of Generalissimo Trump.

Exclusive-US refiner Valero to import up to 6.5 million barrels of Venezuelan crude in March, sources say

finance.yahoo.com - Exclusive US refiner valero import

The Venezuelan colony does not, currently, have enough production to completely replace Canadian, but I expect Venezuelan to replace virtually all Canadian refined in PADD 3.

After all, why would big oil have paid that $1B bribe, if not to ensure adequate crude supply, and soaring profits, while the rest of the world deals with "shortage"?

Steve

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