05-27-2013, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medial...t/table-01.pdf
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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Great, permits are down. But oil production is up.
http://factcheck.org/2012/10/obamas-drilling-denials/
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Oil production in areas under federal jurisdiction increased under Obama. We again compared the last three full fiscal years of Bush?s term with the next three years, a period that falls almost entirely under Obama?s time in office
Oil production on federal lands and in federal waters grew by 14 percent ? or 241 million barrels of oil ? during that time (see table 2).
(The increase is 15 percent when we exclude fiscal year 2009 and compare fiscal years 2007 and 2008 with 2010 and 2011.)
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