Cruise through your grocery store's produce section and you'll see helpful country-of-origin labels required by federal farm legislation. Those bananas were shipped from Ecuador. That box of blueberries took a long boat ride from Chile.
Wouldn't it be helpful to know whether you're subsidizing petro despots like Hugo Chavez or Vladimir Putin?
It won't happen. The reality is that many refineries accept oil from both domestic and foreign sources, and those sources may vary day by day.
Second, gasoline from different refineries typically is mixed together as the fuel sloshes through pipelines on its way to bulk terminals, where it is loaded into tanker trucks for delivery to retail stations.
How about labels that give consumers a general idea of where oil consumed in the U.S. originates, broken down by country, and where the biggest reserves are?
Stick pie graphs on pumps showing in living color the global trouble spots and dysfunctional regimes with which the U.S. is likely to be entangled if we continue running on the oil dependence treadmill.
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