kontiki wrote:
Dylan Smith wrote:

Not all crude is the same, and the United States is already drilling for
quite a lot of oil. The remaining large oil fields that aren't being
exploited currently are not *cheap* oil, but expensive oil.

And oil from other countries is cheap?

Can't speak for crude, but there are large differences in the price of one
of its refined products, gasoline/petrol, as demonstrated by this table
(compiled in March, 2005):

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lis...bal_gasprices/