Same Inaccurate Claim on Oil Imports

Same Inaccurate Claim on Oil Imports ^ | July 6th, 2009 | Andrew Karter

[Scheneida]

In a July 6 interview with Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, President Obama repeated his false claim that the U.S. “import[s] more oil today than ever before.” When Obama first said this in February during an address to a joint-session of Congress, we wrote that the president had gotten his facts wrong. We said then that oil imports peaked in 2005 and have “substantially” declined since.

[Scheneida]

The President needs a fact-checker pronto. Chart:

[Cheetahcat]

So by that graph we are at 2003 levels.

[ckilmer]

looks like the decline in oil imports corresponds to the rise in oil prices.

good.

darn it looks like imports could be down as much as 30% by the end of the year from the top a couple years back.

[SunkenCiv]

President Obama repeated his false claim that the U.S. "import[s] more oil today than ever before." When Obama first said this in February during an address to a joint-session of Congress, we wrote that the president had gotten his facts wrong. We said then that oil imports peaked in 2005 and have "substantially" declined since.