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ChicagoTeamster

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5. So where do they get their oil? Isn't their petroleum supply chain diversified? Aren't the UK and Norway oil producers?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:37 AM

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Can't they buy American in the meantime? The US has over 9000 drilled but uncompleted wells in seven key oil and natural gas production regions in the United States. There are probably even more in the Gulf of Mexico. Can't we pick up production to keep them from running out for the next few months?

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So where do they get their oil? Isn't their petroleum supply chain diversified? Aren't the UK and Norway oil producers? ChicagoTeamster Yesterday #5

You still need refineries for that oil BumRushDaShow Yesterday #6

I know, but the nations buying the oil have their own refineries and can do necessary tweaking to handle different crude ChicagoTeamster Yesterday #8

"can do necessary tweaking to handle different crude" BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago #9

I have a physics degree but took a year of organic chemistry and yes I know the apparatus are complex ChicagoTeamster 23 hrs ago #10

The oil industry likes it this way Miguelito Loveless 23 hrs ago #14

Remember that many around the world BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago #15

Catch is everyone is doing just enough to max short term profits IbogaProject 16 hrs ago #26

You can't "tweek" a refinery Miguelito Loveless 23 hrs ago #12

It takes a lot more than a "tweak" to refine different weights of oil Callie1979 20 hrs ago #19

I was just using tweak as a term, I was implying that if they had to they could reengineer, ChicagoTeamster 20 hrs ago #21

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