The US is a NET EXPORTER, and world's largest producer, of oil and gas.

[scruffy]

So why do certain people keep babbling on about the US not being energy self sufficient and blaming high prices on (lack of) domestic production?

U.S. natural gas net trade is growing as annual LNG exports exceed pipeline exports - Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Natural gas imports and exports - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Oil imports and exports - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Is this not obvious?

Look at the graph, what do you see?

Total consumption rises, while imports stay the same, and therefore exports make up the rest. Right?

Well, what happens when you export more than you import? Where do those exported barrels come from? They come from OUR resources! They come out of OUR ground.

We are depleting our own resources, is what we're doing. Being a net exporter does not equate with being energy independent.

 

[Markle]

We are depleting our own resources, is what we're doing. Being a net exporter does not equate with being energy independence.

 

[scruffy]

It's very easy. If we sell all our oil to foreign countries, then when the next war comes, we have none

 

[Markle]

It's very easy. If we sell all our oil to foreign countries, then when the next war comes, we have none

We have massive amounts of fossil fuels. As does the rest of the world.

For example, if we had to cut all of our domestic and imported fossil fuel, the ANWAR Oil field could supply at least two years. Yes, it is that massive.

Coal? The Escalade National Park is total wasteland and comtains decades of high quality, low-sulfur, clean burning coal.

Yes, we should be searching and developing every form of energy possible including building nuclear plants.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

Well, what happens when you export more than you import?

Then you're a next EXPORTER. Exactly like I said.

We are depleting our own resources, is what we're doing. Being a net exporter does not equate with being energy independent.

Oh dear god! You're not just moving the goal post down the field, you've launched it into orbit around Mars!

So what are you saying? You want the US to stop producing oil and natural gas?

 

[Flash]

We were net exporters in 2019 and 2020 when Trump was President but not now.

That is why President Potatohead is begging the Iranians, Venezuelans and Saudis to give us more oil now. He wants to get the supply back up before the mid terms hit this year.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

but not now.

 

[BlindBoo]

More oil was being produced in Dec 2019 than today. FACT.

But by May of 2020

As the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies came to an agreement on a record cut in oil production, U.S. President Donald Trump may have struck his “biggest and most complex deal,” according to oil expert Dan Yergin.

OPEC and allies' oil production cut is Trump's 'biggest and most complex' deal ever: Dan Yergin

Yergin said there were two main factors driving the turnaround to the deal that just six weeks ago "would not have seemed possible."

www.cnbc.com

Just a few weeks ago, Trump had said the early-March plunge in oil prices were “good for the consumer” as it meant lower gasoline prices. That drop in crude prices had been triggered by an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia after Moscow rejected a proposal by OPEC to cut 1.5 million barrels of production per day.

The sharp decline in oil prices spurred giant capex and job cuts across the U.S. shale industry, which has some of the highest production costs in the world.

 

[surada]

Are you not ashamed of such a ludicrous post?

All of your "sources" are forecasts dated back in AUGUST 16, 2021. Due to the policies of this massively failed administration of President Biden reversed course on day one when he took office.

How could you be so ignorant about the oil business?

 

[surada]

But by May of 2020

As the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies came to an agreement on a record cut in oil production, U.S. President Donald Trump may have struck his “biggest and most complex deal,” according to oil expert Dan Yergin.

OPEC and allies' oil production cut is Trump's 'biggest and most complex' deal ever: Dan Yergin

Yergin said there were two main factors driving the turnaround to the deal that just six weeks ago "would not have seemed possible."

www.cnbc.com

Just a few weeks ago, Trump had said the early-March plunge in oil prices were “good for the consumer” as it meant lower gasoline prices. That drop in crude prices had been triggered by an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia after Moscow rejected a proposal by OPEC to cut 1.5 million barrels of production per day.

The sharp decline in oil prices spurred giant capex and job cuts across the U.S. shale industry, which has some of the highest production costs in the world.

That was written in early 2020. Daniel Yergin knows more about the oil business than anyone.

 

[surada]

Fact: Starting from almost the same amount of US oil production upon taking office, Biden increased US oil production by 31 percent in his first year while Trump only increased production by 21 percent.

Fact: Saudi Arabia is exporting less oil today than during the pandemic.

Fact: Oil companies are deliberately slow walking their production in order to keep profits as high as possible.

Fact: Joe Biden has approved far more public land leases for oil drilling than Trump did.

But, you know, Fox Fake News knows the rubes are too stupid to find this out for themselves and they will parrot "Because Biden!" because it feels good to be wrong and reading is hard!

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