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Whether measured in BTUs/oil barrels equivalent or in US dollars, we estimate that the reversal in energy balances”
This does not mean we are independent you dumbfuck. It’s talking about balance.
A simple comparison would be two people who barter goods for survival: one person provides food, another provides the shelter.
Together their needs are met, but they are not “independent”.
2018 production was less than 11 million barrels per day, an INCREASE over previous years, with fewer active wells.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42715#:~:text=In 2018, while production was,in technology and drilling techniques.
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US oils consumption in 2018 was over 19 million barrels per day.
WHERE DID WE MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DAILY PRODUCTION AND DAILY USE?
IF WE HAD TO BUY IT FROM INTERNATIONAL SOURCES, WE WERE NOT INDEPENDENT.
So, I’ll ask you yet again: WHERE DID THE OIL COME FROM THAT WE DID NOT AND COULD NOT PRODUCE?
“INDEPENDENT” means we are able to provide all of our energy needs from within our own borders.
Show us when that happened.
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