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[quote user="Murphy Siding"][quote user="1435mm"] It's not easy to parse auto traffic.  Coal is vastly easier to understand.[/quote]That one still gets me-the fact that we import coal!  What's the phrase-sending coal to Newcastle?[;)][/quote]Yes but only a dribble -- about 3% of our 2006 output of 1.16 billion tons.By the numbers in 2006, 36.2 million tons import (25 of that from Colombia), vs. 49.6 million tons exports (19.4 to Europe, 18.4 to Canada).  Basically all that is being imported is Colombian and Venezuelan coal to tidewater or near-tidewater power plants on the Gulf Coast and Atlantic seaboard, and some coking coal.  The former is simply a reflection of the fact that water transportation is significantly cheaper than rail transportation (and the Colombian coalfields are near-tidewater), and the latter that we've exhausted most of our low-cost-of-extraction coking coal seams.  By the way the Colombian coal mines are owned predominately by U.S. and Canadian coal mining companies (or companies whose stocks are largely held in the U.S.) and most of the mining equipment is sourced in the U.S.S. Hadid
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