[kellynla]

“Stossel gets it?”

Okay, Marine, you wanna address the issue in my first post.

[kabar]

When we trade dollars to foreigners for oil, they have to do something with those dollars." Yes, John, many of those countries that we purchase oil from use the proceeds to purchase arms to kill American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Marines!

Oil is a global commodity. All oil is fungible. Whether we buy it or not doesn't matter since oil is a commodity in high demand. These "proceeds" will be available to the producers regardless of where we spend our money.

Canada is our biggest trading partner. 23% of our exports go there and 17.4% of our imports come from Canada, followed by China 13.3%, Mexico 10.6%, Japan 8.8%, and Germany 5.2%.

What specific countries are you referring to in terms of oil purchases that help fund terrorists? Here is a list of countries we import oil from and the amounts