Electioneering by McCain and Pickens, sometimes Obama too, say we spend $700 billion importing oil from unfriendly nations, but Canada and Mexico alone account for 30 percent of imports.
According to government agencies that track energy imports, the U.S. spent $246 billion in 2007 for all imported crude oil, a majority of it coming from friendly nations, including neighboring Canada and Mexico.
An additional $82 billion was spent on imported refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and fuel oil. A majority of the refined products came from refineries in such friendly countries as the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago and the Virgin Islands.