I'll hang on to that chart for teabaggers who claim Obama has been bad for drilling in the US.
An increase in production has nothing to do with him. New technology has led to the increase.
Fucking dumbass.
Fracking has allowed them to reopen old wells.
Government funded technology. Oil people like to credit Mitchell for development of fracking, but he would have never done it without government funding. He drilled 37 or 38 wells testing those methods before he ever had to put a penny of his own money into it. Government grants paid for all of that.
They've been fracking for water for years. Fracking itself was invented in 1947.