[QUOTE=Emrobu;189815]That’s an interesting story, but the data don’t support it very well. Try clicking the various country boxes and then the graph button. You’ll see that nearly all of the US crude is exported to Canada. Marshall Islands is a very distant 6th place.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_expc_a_EPC0_EEX_mbbl_m.htm
It’s a good thing but not a great thing. There’s a problem when Curaçao, Bahamas, and Marshall islands get a big piece of the trade: they’re not consumers. And we don’t know who the consumers are, for sure. That energy or the profits from that energy could be going to the kind of people who don’t want you to know where their fuel and money are coming from. Anyone know why Marshall Islands shouldn’t be considered as a gateway to the black market?[/QUOTE]
Because Marshall Islands is a (former) US dependency and has a free trade agreement allowing crude export there. The crude never sees M.I. but that is beside the point. (What would the do with it it anyhow? There are no refineries on the M.I.
Isn’t the export to Canada another “trade arrangement” to allow transport on foreign ships, with the oil ending up back in the US anyhow? That trade has been allowed for many years.