[CondorFlight]

Fortunately Trump has permitted US oil production to increase, removing the restrictions placed on it by preceding administrations.

So, we don’t import oil any more.

The rest of the world can fend for themselves, or buy from us.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The rest of the world can fend for themselves, or buy from us."

Keep in mind that oil is an international market. The price of oil goes up it will go up for us as well as everyone else. The only way we can offset that is by our companies producing more oil and replacing the oil that is off the market.

[SaxxonWoods]

What are you talking about? We produce about 10 million barrels a day and use 29 million.

We import a hell of a lot of oil. The fact we export some production makes our importing numbers go up.

[Mariner]

“So, we don’t import oil any more.”

Nonsense.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3778778/posts?page=48#48

I don’t know who or what originated this fallacious idea into the American consciousness, but it is certainly not accurate.

[PIF]

So, we don’t import oil any more.

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Ah but we do. US refineries are set to refine heavy crude; US oil fields produce light or sweet crude. We have little or no capacity to refine it, thanks in part to NIMBY sentiments. Therefore, to keep US refineries going we need to import heavy crude.

[unixfox]

Our oil production could increase even more now. If the price stays above $60 a barrell for any length of time the Permian Basin will boom even more. Jobs, jobs, jobs.

[NELSON111]

>>>So, we don’t import oil any more.

This is absolutely - 100% false. We most certainly do import oil. We are a NET ZERO importer of oil - meaning we send out the same amount we bring in...but we are still importing oil. In June we were still importing 215K barrels a month - 47K from OPEC and about 1/2 from Canada.

Not sure how you can say we don't import oil with all the news of Candian pipelines. What do you think they have in them? Kool-aid?

[wannabegeek]

Yes, we don't import oil. But we export already refined ready-to-use fuel to all over the world, specially aviation fuel.

[crusty old prospector]

We still import oil. Mostly from Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Russia.

[Fungi]

Not true. We still import almost 10 million barrels per day.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727&t=6

[Wuli]

“Fortunately Trump has permitted US oil production to increase, removing the restrictions placed on it by preceding administrations........”So, we don’t import oil any more.”

Not true, and we need to quit accepting such myths.

Yes, our national consumption of oil is less dependent on imported oil because of how much we now produce domestically.

But our total consumption-appetite for oil products is so high, we still import a lot of oil.

For 2018 the U.S. imported just under 10 million barrels of oil a day. 2019 is not drastically different. That import level is about 50% of U.S. consumption. Far from making us “energy independent”; more energy secure, yes, but not energy independent.