[Reaganez]

The USA would not be energy independent producing 14 million bpd. We would still be importing 5 million bpd.

[dfwgator]

No but it would be a big step towards it.

You really think we cannot be Energy Independent if we wanted to be?

[ckilmer]

The USA would not be energy independent producing 14 million bpd. We would still be importing 5 million bpd.
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Yeah I can’t say that I understand that either. 14.5 million barrels a day is usually cited as being the oil independence number and yet the US consumes something like 18 million barrel’s a day.

The only thing I can guess is that 19 million barrels a day include oil that is imported, refined into gasoline, and shipped back overseas again.

So that 14 million barrel’s a day is the NET US production.

[Qout]

14 million barrels per day crude
+2.9 million barrels per day natural gas liquids
+1.0 million barrels per day ethanol
+1.1 million barrels per day refinery gain

=19 million barrels per day

and we wouldn’t have to import anything from Canada and Mexico.