But Dorkbama said we couldn’t drill our way to energy independence!?
Somebody is lying.
We still import close to 10 million barrels per day.
Even when we are the largest oil producer, we will still be an oil importer, and if the economy keeps growing maybe as much of a net oil importer as we are now, which is about 60% of what we need. Why? We are a nation that is very thirsty for oil - we consume so much of the stuff.
That does not mean we should not applaud the greater domestic oil production; it is still a very good thing - the oil consumption dollars that stay in the domestic economy verses paying foreign suppliers, the revenue to domestic producers, the domestic oil industry jobs and their incomes.
But “energy independent”? That the additional oil production will not do.
Somebody is lying.
Hussein Obama worked under the premise that Americans are basically idiots and that they believe most of what the corrupt presstitutes tell them to think.
Control the presstitues and you control America.