My understanding is that Saudi Arabia was #4 until Venezuela recently started cutting back what they sold us, and Saudi Arabia has upped its production to maximum capacity in the wake of Katrina, which are probably the reasons why they're up to #3. This does illustrate that the alliance with them has uses--unlike most nations, they have excess capacity much of the time and can therefore more easily cut or raise their output--but it hardly makes them the omnipotent powerhouse they're so often made out to be.

It should also be noted (as I did in an update to the article you linked) that all of this is just looking at imports. Yet 43% of all oil we consume is produced domestically--we are our own largest supplier by far. In terms of total consumption, Saudi oil is only about 8% of what we use. And Iraqi oil is about 3% of what we consume, which proves that we only went to war with Saddam because we wanted his precious, precious oil and didn't want to just buy it from him....

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