[mamelukesabre]

How do you know that if we start buying canadian oil that canada won’t join OPEC?

[Dane]

How do you know that if we start buying canadian oil that canada won’t join OPEC?

Do you really think Stephan Harper would join OPEC?

[JSDude1]

Competition is ALWAYS good for the competitior (and the consumer); I doubt Canada wants to share it’s oil with the “3rd World”, especially under a Conservative Prime Minister.

[thackney]

How do you know that if we start buying canadian oil that canada won’t join OPEC?

We have been buying canadian oil for many decades.

Total U.S. Crude Oil Imports From Canada
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mcrimusca2m.htm

We import more oil from Canada than from any other country.

U.S. Imports by Country of Origin
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0_mbblpd_m.htm