US crude oil production is at a 12 year high.
Team Obama's Deliberately Misleading Energy Messaging
3/12/12 By Erika Johnsen
The increased domestic oil production we're currently enjoying is due to the initiative of private businesses and the policies of
"the previous administration" -- seems like incread oil production is one of the few things Obama isn't willing to pin on the Bush administration, even if that's where the credit is actually due.
Team Obama's Deliberately Misleading Energy Messaging - Erika Johnsen
Nice GOP talking point. Now the Real Story
Oil production on federal lands and offshore during the first three years of the Obama administration was 13 percent higher than from 2006 to 2008, according to new government data, though it did decrease somewhat between 2010 and 2011.
The new data from the Energy Information Administration, which produces nonpartisan energy data and reports, provided some relief to a White House that has taken a continual battering from Republicans in recent weeks. GOP lawmakers had alleged that President Obamas policies have impeded U.S. oil production on federal lands and offshore, contributing to gasoline prices that have roughly doubled since he took office in early 2009.
The EIA report confirms that the Obama Administration has overseen an overall expansion of production on federal lands and waters as part of the nationwide rise in production levels, Heather Zichal, White House energy and climate adviser, said in a statement.
Prior to the datas release, Obama had noted that overall U.S. oil production is up under his watch. Republicans long responded that the increase has occurred on state and private lands that the president doesnt control and that production in areas he does control decreased.
Then the EIA data came out, and the White House seized on them.
Again, the facts speak for themselves, Zichal said.
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