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Thank God Obama isn't president anymore. I doubt this would be happening!!!
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Most people know that the shale revolution has turned the U.S. into a big producer of oil, allowing it to become less reliant on imports. What's less known is how much oil it has been shipping abroad lately. U.S. exports in the first three months of 2017 exceeded those of five of the 14 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The OPEC estimates come from Lloyd's Apex, which supplies its data to the U.S. Energy Information Administration
And just WHAT did Trump have to do with the "shale revolution" that led to our oil surplus?
thank god obama isn't president anymore. I doubt this would be happening!!!
Suddenly the u.s. Is exporting more crude than a bunch of opec members
most people know that the shale revolution has turned the u.s. Into a big producer of oil, allowing it to become less reliant on imports. What's less known is how much oil it has been shipping abroad lately. U.s. Exports in the first three months of 2017 exceeded those of five of the 14 members of the organization of petroleum exporting countries. The opec estimates come from lloyd's apex, which supplies its data to the u.s. Energy information administration
Your source does not mention Donald Trump. But your source does say "Congress voted in December 2015 to lift the export ban" and "Oil exports from the U.S. have risen 1,600 percent in four years" (and "2015" and "the last four years" was when Obama was in office.)
"In the year 2000, just before President Bush took office, U.S. crude oil production averaged 5.8 million barrels per day. During President Bush's last year in office, 2008, U.S. crude oil production averaged 5.0 million bpd."
"And president Obama has presided over rising oil production in each of the seven years he has been in office. (Under Obama) U.S. oil production has grown each year to reach 9.4 million bpd in 2015 -- a gain of 88% during Obama's presidency. This is in fact the largest domestic oil production increase during any presidency in U.S. history."
Your source does not mention Donald Trump. But your source does say "Congress voted in December 2015 to lift the export ban" and "Oil exports from the U.S. have risen 1,600 percent in four years" (and "2015" and "the last four years" was when Obama was in office.)
"In the year 2000, just before President Bush took office, U.S. crude oil production averaged 5.8 million barrels per day. During President Bush's last year in office, 2008, U.S. crude oil production averaged 5.0 million bpd."
"And president Obama has presided over rising oil production in each of the seven years he has been in office. (Under Obama) U.S. oil production has grown each year to reach 9.4 million bpd in 2015 -- a gain of 88% during Obama's presidency. This is in fact the largest domestic oil production increase during any presidency in U.S. history."
It was Obama that so greatly increased America's oil production, not Trump.
No, it is improved drilling and extraction technologies that have led to such a huge increase in oil production. Obama had nothing to do with it. Donald Trump either.
No, it is improved drilling and extraction technologies that have led to such a huge increase in oil production. Obama had nothing to do with it. Donald Trump either.
"In accord with (Obama's) wishes, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (reopened) a large portion of the waters off the Eastern seaboard, an area stretching all the way from Florida to Delaware, to new oil and natural gas exploration."
Obama also implemented the following measures,
"An increase in the sales of leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands. In 2013, the Bureau of Land Management held 30 such sales—the most in a decade—offering 5.7 million acres for lease by industry."
"An increase in the speed with which permits are being issued for actual drilling on federal lands. What’s called “processing time” has, the White House boasts, been cut from 228 days in 2012 to 194 days in 2013."
"The opening up of an additional 59 million acres for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico."
And Obama followed a highly aggressive geopolitical blueprint to increase oil production,
"That blueprint consists of four key features:"
"1. Promote domestic oil and gas production at any cost to reduce America’s dependence on unfriendly foreign suppliers, thereby increasing Washington’s freedom of action."
"2. Keep control over the oil flow from the Persian Gulf (even if the US gets an ever-diminishing share of its own oil supplies from the region) in order to retain an “economic stranglehold” over other major oil importers."
"3. Dominate the sea lanes of Asia, so as to control the flow of oil and other raw materials to America’s potential economic rivals, China and Japan."
"4. Promote energy “diversification” in Europe, especially through increased reliance on oil and natural gas supplies from the former Soviet republics of the Caspian Sea basin, in order to reduce Europe’s heavy dependence on Russian oil and gas, along with the political influence this brings Moscow."
How does one deal with the cognitive dissonance that is the GOP hard right, such as the OP? They are in their own la la land of starving minorities and mandatory church attendance these days.
You treat Trump like people in North Korea treat Kim Jong Un. I'm wondering if you realize you worship the man like a cult?
I voted for Trump.
Didn't have to.
Could have voted for any of the other candidates.
Could have stayed home.
Not seeing the similarities.
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