Let's demolish yet another right-wing nitwitism. .. ..
kramarat Hero Nitwit wrote:There is more oil and natural gas in North America than in anyplace else in the world,
Well.. that might be the Fox Noise belief but the reality is.. .. . ..
As for drilling our way out of this.. ... if ALL the oil in the U.S. were sitting in storage tanks now... it would last us about 3 years at our current rate of consumption..
kramarat Hero Nitwit wrote: we've got a president that doesn't want to exploit our newly discovered natural resources,
The reality is. . . . . .
"Oil production is more a mixed bag. On state and private lands, oil production was actually going down in the 2000s, leveled off between fiscal years 2007 and 2010, then went up by 385,000 barrels a day in fiscal year 2011, when the most recent data are available, Sieminski said.
On federal and Indian lands, as well as federally approved offshore drilling sites, oil production went up from 1.6 million barrels per day to 2 million barrels per day between fiscal years 2008 and 2010. But it dropped to 1.8 million barrels per day for the last fiscal year available, a decrease that the U.S. Energy Information Administration attributes to the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Despite the one-year drop in production, oil production on federal and Indian lands from 2009 through 2011 totaled 2.027 million barrels. That's an average of 675,000 barrels per year during Obama's term, compared to an average annual production of 609,000 barrels annually during Bush's last term."
Fact Check
Which leads one to ask.. .. Why do those idiots at the ironically named Conservative Political Forum post crap that is so easily proven to be pure bullshit..