Your graph is offshore only. 2009 and 2010 are the first two years that domesitic production has increased since 1991, and the first two consecutive years of increased production since the mid 80s. Now what were you saying? http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS1&f=A
A difference of 146,000 barrels is not a trend my FRiend and coupled with the dramatic drop in offshore production thanks to Obama..it’s a bust....just like taking a few boom years from the 70’s and extrapolating that ‘all domestic oil production has been in steady decline since the 70’s’ isn’t exactly true either. We will have to wait for the 2011 reports to truly have a clear idea how much damage that Obama has done, but sources in the energy field are screaming at the top of the roof that Obama is wrecking our domestic energy production..just like he is wrecking the coal industry.
Who you gonna believe..Obama or industry professionals?
In fact, we should probably not be getting any of our figures from the government now since the Obama Administration has been caught red handed manipulating data already.
In fact..you should read this:
http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2011/03/11/clearing-up-todays-obama-energy-lies/