It's this kind of stuff that hurts the credibility of cornucopians.
Don't know about cornies but what hurts your credibility is not reading the post or the thread and failing to understand what you do read, not to mention your juvenile ad homs and silly big fonts.
This thread is not about consumption, it's about imports/exports.
13 years ago (11/4/05) the US imported —net— 14,370 mb/d
Last week of November, 2018 the US imported -211mb/d
The reason to measure total (crude and product) is we only imported 10Mb/d of crude in 2005 but we were also importing almost 5Mb/d of finished product.
LinkWhether it fits your preconceived notions or not, this is a big milepost.
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The USA is not oil independent.
didn't say it was
The USA is not exporting its oil for the consumption of other countries.
actually it is:
The USA is not able to meet per capita demand for oil the way it has in the past and likely never will.
LOL, the US has been an importer since the the '40s or 50's
here are a couple more balloon poppers:
The US is extracting more than it ever did in the past and the growth rate is probably unprecedented.
The US will close the year as the largest crude producer in the world.
And eia says that amount will continue to increase, all things equal, 2mb/d next year.
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The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)