Originally Posted by ChevyMgr

I believe there's been enough bashing on both sides. Congrats to both teams for great games and performances.

Originally Posted by GTOMIKE

Just think how much you would pay for your gas if all your oil came overseas.


The top five sources of US crude oil imports for December were Canada (2.051 million barrels per day), Mexico (1.063 million barrels per day), Nigeria (1.020 million barrels per day), Saudi Arabia (0.886 million barrels per day), and Venezuela (0.772 million barrels per day). The rest of the top ten sources, in order, were Algeria (0.336 million barrels per day), Iraq (0.325) million barrels per day), Angola (0.266 million barrels per day), Brazil (0.181 million barrels per day), and Colombia (0.179 million barrels per day).
Canada remained the largest exporter of total petroleum in December, exporting 2.649 million barrels per day to the United States, which is an increase from last month (2.527 thousand barrels per day).

Canada is the largest foreign supplier to the US of all forms of power generation – oil and gas, uranium and, of course, electricity. (More than $125B in exports annually.)

Electricity trade, primarily hydropower from Canada to the US, is a key element of this unique market. It is cheap, abundant and clean.

Originally Posted by HHRSSouth

You made my point for me, without the USA to sell your resources to your economy would be worse then it already is. We don't have to get any resources from Canada, its just more convenient since you border us instead of going outside North America.

Canada will never be recognized as a world power, you don't have the money, people or resources to pull it off. End of discussion

Grats on your gold medal

Originally Posted by calgaryhhr

Yeah, we get it! The only reason we stay afloat is because of the generosity from our neighbours in the south

We're very fortunate to have a great friend to keep us from becoming a third world country.

Originally Posted by fastsuv

I live a few miles from the Canadian border. Canadians come here all the time to shop, and Americans go across to Canada for fishing, camping, etc.

We should realize how good it is to have a huge border between us and neither side is lobbing grenades at the other, running across and killing someone and going back, etc. A lot of the world faces such conditions in adjoining countries.

That said, I feel the original title of this thread was unnecessarily provocative (and inaccurate). If it would have said something to the effect of "we did it" instead of "kicks U.S. butt" there probably wouldn't have been any insults hurled back and forth.

Steve