US Now World’s Top Oil Producer

After Bush Era Decline, US Now World’s Top Oil Producer

Oil Output Suppressed, Lowered by Bush/Cheney/Enron Manipulation

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

America is now the top oil producer in the world,  nearly a 45% increase today over the worst dip in production during the Bush market crash.  In fact, over the entire Bush administration, oil production in the US maintained a steady decrease despite endless new areas made available to drilling, some at high environmental risk.

Moreover, mismanagement, corruption and cronyism at the hands of “oil experts,” which Bush and Cheney claimed to be, were, in actuality disastrous for the US oil industry.  Not only was oil production down but refinery construction and fuel exports also lagged.

The graph below, supplied by the highly conservative American Enterprise Institute, provides damning evidence of the hidden failures of the corrupt Bush era.  While Americans fought and died around the world to provide cheap and even stolen oil for the world market, American production of crude, of gasoline and other fuels, not just fell, America’s oil infrastructure collapsed as well.


The problem was short sighted lack of investment and policies that encouraged speculation over development.

Everything most Americans were led to believe about our oil economy and White House expertise under Bush 43 was a lie.

US Oil Production Surpasses Saudi  Arabia’s for the First Time in a Decade

By    Marc Chandler

Last November, US output was estimated at 11  million barrels per day, putting it in second place for the  year. This great graphic comes from Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem blog, which I saw on the American  Enterprise Institute website. It shows that last November, the  US’ oil production surpassed Saudi Arabia’s for the first time in almost a  decade.

Perry notes that the Energy Information Administration states that last  year Saudi Arabia was the largest producer and exporter of petroleum and other  liquids at 11.6 million barrels per day.  It estimated US output at 11  million barrels per day, putting it in second place for the  year.

Of course there is much fluctuation on a month to month basis and this  coupled with what we noted earlier (record US petroleum exports in December) is a sign of things  to come.   The financial crisis may or may not be a game changer in  terms of the global political economy, but the cheap energy story in the US is a  game changer and the full ramifications are still being  contemplated.

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