Posted on 11/15/2016 2:32:23 PM PST by bananaman22
Two of Donald Trump’s main pledges during the presidential race were building a wall along the border with Mexico, and making the U.S. energy-independent. Now that the election is over, these issues are coming to the fore.
First, the president-elect said that the wall, which he mentioned on the campaign trail and in numerous debates, is still very much on the table, though what type of “wall” that may be is an unknow. Second, he said he planned to start deporting illegal aliens—those with criminal records—which could amount to as many as three million individuals.
Despite “The Wall”, the deportation of Mexican citizens, and several grandiose comments about Mexico paying for said wall—not to mention Trump’s proclamation that he would raise import tariffs up to 35 percent on some Mexican products—Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto was among the first of the world leaders to congratulate Trump on his victory.
While supplies from Canada are unlikely to be threatened, thanks to traditionally warm bilateral relations with the country, the situation is different for both Mexico and Venezuela because of the illegal immigration issue and the blatantly anti-U.S. Caracas regime. Whether Trump is successful in cutting back—or cutting entirely—imports from Saudi Arabia is yet another unknown
And while it’s possible that Mexico and Venezuela could suffer a drop in exports to the U.S., if Trump stays true to his campaign promises, other forces are also influencing the matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
Ask Venezuela how much we need them then get back to me.
We have our own.
The very differently configured refineries needed to convert the hard-to-work-with Venezuelan oil into gasoline and other products are here in the United States. Who else are they going to sell their crude oil to, knowing that they cannot refine it?
no bias there. Something tells me we don’t need Mexico as much as they need us.
“With various experts already warning against the adverse outcomes of NAFTA’s removal and the increase of tariffs, it’s possible that these advisers will help the president-elect tweak some of his campaign pledges. For the time being, imports from Mexico and Venezuela should be safe.”
God I hope not.
Opening up federal land areas for oil yes Trump will be successful.
We don’t need Mexican oil. None of it. We need President Trump to get the EPA out of oil’s way.
We don’t need oil from either one. Conversely, they both need us, desperately.
Ironically, I saw an estimate earlier today that the number of illegally-cast votes in our recent election was about three million.
So how do you feel about this?
And we damn sure do not need it from the stinking Middle East.
Now Canada has glut of oil and overcapacity. In fact, it has been a big headache for Alberta to find buyers of their oil. Sooner the Keystone pipeline is built, oil will flood the US market.
US Imports oil from:
Camada: 120 million barrels
Persian Gulf: 56 million
Other OPEC: 52 million
Mexico: 21 million
Russia: 18 million
Colombia: 17 million
We’ll get by.
We will once again produce much of our electricity with good old American coal. We will scrub it for sure, but we’ll use.... then the price of foreign oil will plummet.
They need us a whole bunch more than we need them. Cut off all that water we send down there plus all the foreign aid..millions and millions every year. STOP vacationing in Mexico..there are places you haven’t seen in this country. Cut off our tourism and they are toast.
Mexico could pay for the wall with petroleum.
BS: simply open up pretty much all Federal lands and offshore sites to drilling for oil, gas, and mining coal.
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