[richardtavor]

Waste of space. What the hell does CNN know about anything? The US was not the world’s number one energy producer until now . I fact, Obama tried desperately to kill it. CNN LIES!

[scrabblehack]

“US petroleum and natural gas production first surpassed Russia in 2012, and the United States has been the world’s top producer of natural gas since 2011 and the world’s top producer of petroleum hydrocarbons since 2013”

It is crude oil production in particular in which the US became top in the world under Trump, according to the EIA: it surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia in 2018.

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It sounds like what happens is that when the US imports crude oil, and then refines it, it counts as domestic production of petroleum hydrocarbons.

Russia was ahead of USA before then? Ever since the 1970’s,
if not before? Wow.