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riverine

(516 posts)
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 09:18 PM Jun 2019

From CNN in 2015 "US passes Saudi Arabia to become number one oil producer in the world"

Oil production has grown so much that last summer the nation caught and passed Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer. Before Obama leaves office, domestic oil production could top the U.S. record set in 1970.


https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/28/news/economy/obama-oil-boom/index.html


Did I just hear the Liar-in-Chief try to take credit for this?

We also produced record amounts of clean energy and natural gas in 2015.

Thanks Donnie the Liar!
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From CNN in 2015 "US passes Saudi Arabia to become number one oil producer in the world" (Original Post) riverine Jun 2019 OP
Why do they describe this in terms of this nation? SHRED Jun 2019 #1
 

SHRED

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1. Why do they describe this in terms of this nation?
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 10:10 PM
Jun 2019

Multi-National oil corporations extract it from our country them dump it on the world market.

It has nothing to do with us.

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