Mistaken?
(Or lied?)
That was her “public” stance on the subject.
H->! is Energy Independent, though on the Saudi payroll.
The improvement is due to policies she and her fellow liberals opposed and said wouldn’t work.
It really depends on what “energy” you are talking about.
The phrase “energy independent” is silly. It does not refer to energy really, simply to petroleum, with very minor exceptions (West Coast Canadian natural gas for instance).
The US has always been “energy independent” in power generation and industrial fuels like coal/coke.
It has imported petroleum and its distillates extensively since the 1970’s when domestic production fell below consumption, and thats all the term has meant ever since.
The US still isn’t self-sufficient in petroleum, but its down to about 40% the peak rate of imports.
Net petroleum imports -
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mttntus2&f=m
We are doing well indeed, no thanks to Hillary or Hussein.
Private sector ingenuity and industry (fracking) gets the credit. In Hillary’s language, “greed” wins again. If H&H had had their way, fracking would have been stopped in the name of environmentalism. It would have happened too - with a Democratic Congress.
nobody cares
Overstated?!
We consume almost 20 million barrels per day and we produce just over 10. It’s on the EIA website.
That’s like saying it’s overstating that the Jets beat the Steelers when they lost 31-13.