How much oil does Europe get from SA?

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Hi all- There was a thread below about how much oil we import from Saudia Arabia....I'm curious if anybody has some similar stats for various Western or eastern European countries. We adopted a little Romanian girl last year....Do they get oil from Russia? I've been wondering how that country is doing.

Second subject- sort of related- can somebody write out a BRIEF middle east political analysis for me re. allies and how the future looks? SA used to be real friendly but the new ruler is more of an Islamic right wing, correct? Do most of the Arab nations really deeply hate us, or is that an overblown media picture of just the extreme islamics? Do they have the same feelings toward Europe/Japan as they do for us? Do they really need our money....I heard they prefer the euro and gold- could they survive economically if they decided to wage oil warfare someday and cut us off completely? Just curious. Please post links for long articles and don't paste in really long articles if you don't mind. Thanks. Really appreciate the wealth of insight on this forum on so many subjects.

-- carolyn (carolyn@luvmy.hub), February 13, 2000

Answers

South Africa has no oil.

-- snuggles (snuggles@aol.com), February 13, 2000.

Not exactly current, but this will give you the basic idea....

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/pgulf.html

-- Casper (c@no.yr), February 13, 2000.


Casper: Thanks for the information about the web site - I have been looking for a site like this for a while -

-- Bob (bmoss3@prodigy.net), February 13, 2000.

South Africa has coal - and SA makes oil from coal with the best coal- to-oil technology in the world...

-- Cage Rattler (cage@rattler.com), February 14, 2000.

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