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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Romney said permits on federal land have gone down, not production.
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Your right really. Here's exactly what he said:
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The third area, energy. Energy is critical, and the president pointed out correctly that production of oil and gas in the U.S. is up. But not due to his policies. In spite of his policies.
Mr. President, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land. On government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half. If I'm president, I'll double them, and also get the ? the oil from offshore and Alaska. And I'll bring that pipeline in from Canada.
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While it's true that permits have dropped, this is a decade long trend - not because of Obama. The decrease isn't fifty percent, far from it. It was 37% - compared to Bush, who decreased such permits 42%.
This is completely misleading. It's not 50%, it's 37%, it's part of a decades long tend, and the President before Obama (which was Bush) also decreased such permits by a whopping 42%.
This is political bullshit already - taking fact that is pretty much irrelevant, making it seem important without telling the public the entire story, and making it sound like it's the solution to our economic woes - It's not. And in the mean time production is still up, and I'm paying more than ever at the pumps.
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source for my stats)
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During the last three fiscal years totally under Bush, there were 9,661 "new leases" granted for federal lands. For the three most recent fiscal years (which includes a few months of Bush's administration), there were 5,568 such new leases. This works out to a 42.4% decrease.
Take the same comparable periods for drilling permits on federal lands. There were 20,479 for the last three years under Bush, then 12,821 for the most recent three including much of Obama's first term. This is a 37.4% decrease.
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