What happened, I agree with the labor union:
“What we are witnessing is a policy of destroying the oil industry,” said Jose Bodas, general secretary of the Oil Workers Federation, a national labour union. “The military officials don’t listen to workers. They want to give orders, but they don’t understand this complicated work.”
Some interests have been perpetrating a myth that our enemies can see right through. They’ve been beating the drum of implication that we are oil independent and produce more than we use.
That is false, and it keeps our populace under an illusion that we only fight foreign wars, sometimes to re-secure oil resources, for big investors. We do it for future national survival. The U.K. and other countries are facing an existential problem because of oil resource manipulations managed by incursions, invasions and debt schemes of their adversaries.
We use more oil than we produce. The net export (exports vs. imports) propaganda is a red herring.