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Some people make it easy to have a civilized discussion.  Others however, insist on "YOU'RE LYING", or "YOUR TAKING FROM ME", or worse yet are nothing but mindless Libtards or Rushbots who are incapable of thinking for themselves and only regurgitate the "Party line" prattle they've been told to repeat, and I quickly lose my patience with them.  They've forgotten that it's better to talk to people on-line the same way that you would talk to them in person.




That is a possibility.  Decades ago, in the petroleum engineering classes I took, "crude oil" and "unfinished oil" were interchangeable terms.  In fact, just to make sure I wasn't suffering from a major case of CRS disease, I did some checking, and even on THIS site, they use "unfinished oil" alongside "crude oil" (see "crude oil acquisitions").  It is possible however, that like so many things today, that word usage has changed (for instance, when I was a kid "gay" meant "HAPPY", not "homosexual"), and that "unfinished oil" and "crude oil" may mean different things as far as DOE or SPR are concerned.




I also noticed that in an earlier post, you used 21,000,000 BPD as our total current usage, I am therefore uncertain as to where you obtained your 15,000,000 BPD figure as it relates to imports, and would be very interested in reviewing it, since that would imply that we're actually having to import 75% of our current usage, and I would find that to be VERY disturbing


I see that they're calling it "58 days" of import protection, so unless the EIA's import figures of "unfinished oil" actually DOES mean something other than "crude oil", and their 700,000 BPD figure is accurate, then it's still 255,675,000 BPY or 511,350,000 for 2 years, which leaves 215,000,000 in the SPR. 


If "unfinished oil" does in fact mean something other than "crude oil" (in which case they HAVE pulled an Alice in Wonderland on me, and words mean what they want them to mean, when they want them to mean, regardless of what the proper usage is), and it now means a "partially refined" oil, of which, say, the natural gas, naphtha, and gasoline have already been removed, and all we're importing in our "unfinished oil" is the residual kerosene, diesel oil, lube oil, heavy oils and other residuals, then it's entirely possible that the imports of "residual oil" would be of little or no value as far as replacing what we have in the SPR.


If however "unfinished oil" IS "crude oil", then as for the DOE's "58 days" figure, and to quote Shakespeare, "something is rotten in the State of Denmark".  If you look at the DOE figures on maximum drawdown capacity at 4.4 million barrels a day, and multiply that by the 58 days, it accounts for only 255.2 million of the 727 million barrel capacity of the SPR, or just over 1/3.  Now, realizing full well that it's impossible (from an engineering standpoint) to completely drain the SPR of all of the oil that's been put into it (absorption and stability factors for instance), so I'm going to assume that the 727 million barrel capacity is the "safe" capacity that can actually be withdrawn from the SPR, which means that they're allowing for just over 1/3 to be drawn from the SPR for "import protection" and the rest for some other purpose that has yet to reveal itself.


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