Or you don't understand what they mean.
If the US imports 11 million barrels and exports 10 million, we are energy dependent.
If the US imports 11 million barrels and exports 11 million barrels, we are energy independent.
If the US imports 11 million barrels, and exports 12 million barrels, we are not only energy independent, but a net energy exporter which we were under Trump.
The United States has been an annual net total energy exporter since 2019
Up to the early 1950s, the United States produced most of the energy in consumed.1 Starting in the mid-1950s, the United States began to import greater amounts of energy, particularly crude oil and petroleum products (such as gasoline and distillate fuels) to fill the gap between energy consumption and production. U.S. total energy imports generally increased every year until peaking in 2007. Total energy imports subsequently declined in most years through 2021 as increases in U.S. energy production offset the need for imports and also contributed to increases in U.S. energy exports.
U.S. energy imports and exports since 1950.
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