I think the news ankor must have been a little drunk, or is talking about somthing very local to one place in the US. According to published governmet studies, that I was forced to read in my international business class, that were published in December of 02' say that 88.96% of the commercial petroleum in the united states is refined using oil form south america, largely countries such as Venezuela, which actually is no longer the case because of the political fiasco going on there, but supposedly that hasn't sufficiently affecting the import percentages sufficiently, and one of the, if not the largest exporter of oil to the US, is called PetroBras, which as you may have guessed from the name, is in Brazil.

Now, that's not to say we don't get a lot of oil from canada, but no where near that of what we get form south america. Also, this refference is for commercial petroleum grade oil only, we could get loads of oil meant for other things, from many other places, and it doesn't get fit into the statistic.

Now, keeping in mind that the government is often wrong and frequently has out of date info, I suppose the news ankor could be correct, but more than likely he/she just slamed something that they took in an interview, and likely didn't take the time to actually compile correct statistics.

Any way, don't believe everything you hear on TV