Obama Credits Green Energy For Cutting Foreign Oil Imports — He’s Wrong

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Obama Credits Green Energy For Cutting Foreign Oil Imports — He’s Wrong
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Michael Bastasch
1:17 PM 01/02/2017
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President Barack Obama is making a major public relations blitz to highlight his legacy, including tying falling reliance on foreign oil to his green energy policies.

Obama claimed the U.S. “traded foreign oil for clean energy,” but what he should have said is the U.S. traded foreign oil for hydraulic fracturing. Green energy had little to do with it.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/02/obama-credits-green-energy-for-cutting-foreign-oil-imports-hes-wrong/#ixzz4UhaGdVNO

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Oil imports fell as domestic oil production rose.  And as the production began to fall off is 2015, the imports began increasing again.

4-Week Avg U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCRFPUS2&f=4

4-Week Avg U.S. Commercial Crude Oil Imports Excluding SPR
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WCEIMUS2&f=4