From Foreign Policy magazine's election twitter feed:
Rick Perry: “Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source"
I can't believe I worried this guy would win the Republican primary.
I'll give him a pass on this one. Everyone knows what he means.
That Canada is a US state ?
In the context of energy independence, Canada and Mexico are both U.S. states. The man really should have said "from overseas" or something like that, though.