After biden*harris declare war on U.S. oil production, output slumps, prices soar. But "It's not our fault!"

sWhen Donald Trump was president, the U.S. became totally energy-independent for the first time in many decades.  From importing over half of the oil we used in the 1980s, the U.S. became the world’s top crude oil producer in 2018 and maintained that position in 2019 and 2020.  

But with Trump deposed, the biden* regime declared it didn't like oil and gas, and it ended oil and gas leasing on federal lands and cancelled existing leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.  And on his first day in office biden* signed an executive order cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline.

Now, just five short months after all the regime's anti-oil orders, U.S. oil production has fallen 750,000 barrels per day from January, and we're once again having to import oil.  And you will NEVER guess what country has become the third largest seller of oil to the U.S.

If you're curious, go to the government's "Energy Information Administration" and try to find an actual year-by-year table of U.S. oil imports by exporting nation.  Good luck--while snippets of data are selectively presented--ending at the end of last year--a full history by year and exporting nation is no longer there.  Looks like they don't want you to know. 

To find the answer you need to go to the International Energy Agency, where you'll find data thru March of this year.  And in March the U.S. imported several million barrels of oil from...Russia.

As an aside, the Keystone XL pipeline--a project already under construction, which biden* cancelled by executive order on his first day in office--would have carried 830,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Alberta, Canada to Nebraska.  Oooh, can't have THAT!

But hey, Russia, Canada, what difference does it make to the biden*harris regime, eh?  It's all oil, right?

Besides, who needs all that oil, anyway?  All the New Yorkers I know barely use a tank of gas a year.  Hell, most of 'em don't even need a car.  How many Americans actually need more than, say, a hundred barrels of oil a year, right?  Oh sure, conservatives and economists warn about silly stuff like "Everything you use depends on fuel to get to you from where it's grown or made," but they're just anti-biden* partisans.

So thanks, Joe!  Thanks, Democrats!  The U.S. should never have tried to produce so much oil.  Far better that we buy more from other nations, right?  International trade is good, right?  Oh sure, some people say it's risky to depend on imported oil, but that's just scare talk.  Back in the 1980s we imported over half of the oil we used, and nothing bad happened, right?

[Okay, for you college-age Americans:  All that was sarcasm.  Ask you parents about the "OPEC oil embargo" and three-mile-long gas lines.  Cuz I know that neither your high school nor your university will ever, ever teach you about really crucial things like that.]