Talking To Clouds

Remember there are a ton of different oil products and usages.

So daily numbers shift as well.

Technically we are considered energy independent because we create so much LNG, nat gas.

But we still have to get a ton of oil from Canada. The good stuff not the crap they send to Louisiana.

We have to get to 24 million barrels per day.

In 2025, the United States exported approximately 10.7 million barrels per day (b/d) of total petroleum, including crude oil and refined products.

How much we created changes annually between 9-13 bpd.

Also consumption has risen Last few years.

You should.

We are bombing a country for no apparent reason.

We have spent 6 billion in a week, lost 7 Americans, had 160 wounded.

And we blew up a Girl School that killed 200.

You may hate them but you might want to pay attention to what Chris is able to inform us about.

And vote in November.

We create 13 million a day.

We use 24 million. That’s about 25 pct of global usage.

Not everything we refine can be used in America so we dump that stuff elsewhere.

Most of the imported heads to the Aramaco refinery in Texas.

The U.S. imported approximately 8.51 million barrels per day (b/d) of petroleum in 2023 from 86 countries, with Canada supplying the majority (roughly 60%). Despite being a major producer, the U.S. imports oil to meet specific refinery needs for heavier,
sour crude.

We export the sweet stuff.

Trump said this week that Iran was 2 weeks away from having a nuclear bomb. This is what he said in July.

Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.

Absolutely

Murphy has talked extensively about the girls school bombing and the Tehran black rain.

This thread was about trump’s plan for US military.

If you want to hear more of Murphy’s thoughts on everything else in the ME which includes the people of Gaza & Iran, you can follow him.

Good, caring, guy.

The US creates 13 million barrels of oil per day.

We use 24 million.

We still import oil from Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia…

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

This was really interesting. Cool in a dark way.

I’m strangely happy to see a Judge slice an attorney apart. An attorney who has probably destroyed people’s lives directly or indirectly.

I realize he’s human. But this was more than simple mistakes.

Guys on death row had lawyers like this. FUBAR

Whoa!!! He walked into that trap big time!!!

Just because…

This is WILD!!

The lawyer is blaming AI for everything.

(And “I just forgot”.)

Wow.

Pretty much.

Thankfully, no other president ever needed to.

“Build the scaffold steps strong, many boots will trod upon them…”

(Possibly Robespierre, more likely me)

This is GREAT IDEA!

Wow.

I know nothing about weapons but I’d imagine they have these stockpiled nearby and ready to roll if needed?

Unless Israel knocked them out?

"The U.S. Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing to global markets," Chris Wright wrote on X w/o providing additional details

Message was deleted 4 mins later when it was determined that Pete Hegseth was checking out Escorts on his laptop

What type of missiles do the IRGC have?

That’s their campaign?

What a fucking joke. Donald Trump appointed Erika Kirk to the Air Force Academy board.

She’s a Russian asset.

😂

Well done! Excellent!

2026 will be the most important election in American history.

I place it with 1864, 1932 presidential elections.

Alas, just a midterm but in terms of importance it leads (especially if Ds could win House & Senate).

Only massive turnout ensures the possibility of victory.

Overwhelming numbers.

Except that bullet didn’t literally bounce off him…

It missed and killed the support standing behind him.

But in perfect trumpian style he used the moment to maximum benefit.

At the expense of human life.