[Zhang Fei]

[I am familiar with all the numbers you brought too. Including US oil production and consumption over time.]

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But you claimed the daily numbers I cited were too high. Then I provided the Energy Department numbers which were even higher than ones I remember reading off a chart a while back. Not 10m barrels a day in 1991. 11.5m barrels. Even today, it’s about 8m barrels, if we take the average for the past 12 months.

[NorseViking]

I didn’t claim any of it. All I said is that US had the capacity to produce own oil and no Saddam’s actions could actually push the oil price too high to become unbearable.