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Originally Posted by Robbie
Rochard...how did Obama increase drilling on PRIVATE land? He has now power over that.
He DECREASED the amount of new permits for drilling on public land...the only place he can.
That is why when Romney said that to his face...Obama just stared blankly and couldn't defend himself against that. Because it's TRUE.
If there had been no private drilling...there would have been a HUGE decrease in oil production in the U.S. which is exactly what Obama has stated he wants. He wants less oil to "force" us to use "green" energy.
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But is this really true or this more political bullshit?
Fact checking from CNN:
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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.
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So oil production over the past four years on federal land is up, not down. Romney lied.
And at the end of the day, what's the point? Oil production goes up, and oil production goes down.