They said the Global Warming Crisis was going to kill us off. Now, the threat has been alleviated while drastically increasing our production of fossil fuels
and making the USA a net exporter of oil.
Trump removes global warming from list of national security threats
LOL...America is a net exporter of oil? Where the hell did you read that...Breitbart? Shit...are Trumpbots gullible.
U.S. Total Crude Oil and Products Imports
U.S. Exports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products
So I suppose America is importing 279,000,000 barrels of oil EVERY MONTH just for the fun of it?
America imports almost 4 TIMES as much oil as she exports.
Yet another case of leftists being clueless about how things work.. Yes America is now a NET exporter of oil.. Does not mean we don't import a shit load of it.. But since you don't understand how fungible oil is and WHAT WE DO with those imports --- I'll explain it very slowly...
First --- we import a lot of oil to REFINE IT into various products and then turn around and exports those products. Like gas, jet fuel, kerosene, diesel, etc...
Second, we import oil on a global market.. With AMERICAN companies overseas doing the drilling and shipping. Or we buy from the Saudis because "the price is right"... Oil RESERVES dictate how much we buy on a monthly basis largely..
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
There's a couple charts there to help you understand that nations that ARE oil producers --- even net exporters of oil -- STILL take imports...
Here's another graph showing the effect... NOTE -- this inflection point occurred EARLIER than 2018 if you count importing crude and EXPORTING refined products.. This DESPITE EVERYTHING THE OBAMA ADMIN thru in the path of becoming "energy independent".
As for demoting GW/CChange from a national security threat -- it will save the govt agencies time and energy to produce "action plans" for a crisis that has been over-hyped and sold with fear --- not reason.. There's no reason for every branch of the DOD to have to write annual reports on GW 'readiness"..
But it doesn't much other than cut busywork funding..
The US has ALWAYS been energy independent in terms of it's ELECTRICAL generation that does NOT rely on oil.. And now with the help of the marketeers and entrenpreneurs and NO HELP from Obama, we have lowered our CO2 EMISSIONS BELOW THE pledge for Kyoto to about 1995 levels.. This is ALL because of converting to the massive CLEANER natural gas reserves that have come out of fracking and the Dakotas and Penn... And building new pipelines to get it to where it needs to be.. This ALLOWS the replacement of some coal plants.....