With Dems screaming about duh high price of gas, let me put ya some knowledge about oil

Most people know almost nothing useful about oil, which is understandable: I don't know squat about Taylor Swift or the Kardashians.  Problem is, Democrats cunningly exploit your ignorance to your detriment.  I'd like to try to offset that a bit.

Twenty-one years ago (2005) the U.S. imported an average of 12.55 million barrels of oil every DAY (imports minus exports).  If we had to do this today, America would be having to pay oil-exporting nations roughly $1.1 BILLION per DAY.

Fortunately, beginning around 1975, U.S. oil producers--at their sole risk and cost--began to use a drilling technology previously only used offshore, called "directional drilling."  To do it, drillers start a well normally, but then after a few thousand feet down, they manage to bend the pipe so the drill is now drilling horizontally instead of vertically.  This allows the borehole to intersect known faults that tap distant oil deposits.

This technology is both far more difficult and far more expensive than drilling straight down, but the extra productivity makes it worth the extra cost.

Then around 1985 a totally different technology--again developed by oil companies at their own cost and risk--increased oil production even more.  Oil is often trapped in upside-down U structures underground.  Companies had long used "seismic shooting" to map underground strata to find these structures.  This involved setting off dozens of small explosive charges on the surface, and 30 or more listening devices in a straight line to record the faint echo from different rock layers.

By 1985 computers had become powerful enough to enable major oil companies to shoot "3-D seismic," using hundreds of listening devices arranged in a grid.  Computer processing of the echoes enable companies to map the underground strata in three dimensions, letting them find more traps than before. 

Both techniques produced more oil, offsetting the annual decline in production from existing fields and discovering new fields.

So finally after slowly declining since 1970, U.S. oil production began increasing, and today the U.S. no longer has to import oil.
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This fabulous gift happened despite democrat morons like Obozo and bribem and their Democrats in congress trying their best to CUT U.S. oil production, mainly by declaring tens of millions of acres of federal lands (and offshore areas) off-limits to oil exploration.  In fact Obozo said--on video--"We can't just drill our way to energy independence."

When Obozo made that statement in May of 2011, the U.S. was producing 5.67 million barrels of oil per day.  Just seven years later--in June of 2018--U.S. oil production had risen to 10.67 million barrels per day.  So he and later his vegetable VP bribem put all but six percent of federal offshore waters off-limits for oil exploration.
 
As a direct result of ingenuity and capitalism, the U.S. is saving about $1.1 BILLION per DAY--which in turn enables U.S. consumers to buy gasoline at a far lower price than most other countries.  For example, in Canada the average cost of a gallon of gas before the recent rise in oil prices was about $4.80, when it was about $2.40 in the U.S.

Here's the average price in several EU countries, again before Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz, when the average price in the U.S. was about $2.40: 

• Netherlands: $9.00 - $9.20
• Denmark: $8.70 - $9.00
• Finland: $8.00 - $8.30
• Germany: $7.20 - $7.50
• France: $7.60 - $7.90
• UK: $7.00 - $7.50

So to all you whiny, ungrateful asshole Democrats and the U.S.  Mainstream Media bitching about now having to pay $4.17 a gallon instead of $2.40 : You're welcome.  

Of course you'll just sneer at this and find a way to complain.  You always do when a Republican is president. 

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