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...let’s look at supply. The U.S. imports between 50 and 55 percent of the oil it uses, depending on whether you count processing gains and field production in our consumption totals. This is 11.1 million barrels per day (BPD), or the 8.9 million crude plus 2.2 million BPD of refined products. Breaking that down by country and region, we find that 2.5 million BPD come from the Persian Gulf. Not surprisingly, we get 1.6 million BPD from Saudi Arabia, our primary supplier in the region. Quite surprisingly, we buy 0.6 million BPD from Iraq, presumably under restrictive...
Among the remaining members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Venezuela and Nigeria are the biggest exporters to the United States, accounting for 1.5 million BPD and 0.9 million BPD in 2000, respectively. This puts OPEC supplies to the U.S. at just over 5.1 million BPD. Somewhat surprisingly, non-OPEC nations account for 5.9 million BPD, meaning that OPEC accounts for only 46 percent of American imports. Among the non-OPEC states, we receive 1.7 million BPD from Canada, 1.3 million BPD from Mexico, and 0.3 million each from Colombia, Norway and the United Kingdom...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts has dropped all charges against Garett D. Trombly ’03, the Cabot House resident who was arrested by the Boston Police Department (BPD) on Sept. 9 and charged with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and drinking alcohol in public...
Trombly’s attorney, Andrew Good, has alleged that after the arrest, Trombly was the one who was assaulted. Good alleges that BPD Sgt. Harry A. Byrne Jr. hit Trombly repeatedly in the face, breaking his jaw, after Trombly was brought to the Brighton district station...
...Harvard economics concentrator spent almost a month with his jaws wired shut, but has yet to file any formal charges against Byrne or the BPD...