California has already seen a slight increase in their oil production rate. They are not longer declining.
And I would hardly call Alaska's a sharp decline. The past 12 months are less than 1% down from the previous 12 months. 
Well, with California and Alaska oil output in sharp decline, the bar is easier to get over.
More important, why do this? Why not run up import totals to the stratosphere and save domestic reserves for a time after we burn up everyone else’s?
California has already seen a slight increase in their oil production rate. They are not longer declining.
And I would hardly call Alaska's a sharp decline. The past 12 months are less than 1% down from the previous 12 months.