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Obama’s Big Energy Gaffe
Posted on March 22, 2012
In his Thursday energy/pipeline speech at Cushing, OK, President Obama opened his mouth and revealed a total lack of understanding of our nation’s energy supply picture.

And I’ve been saying for the last few weeks, and I want everybody to understand this, we use 20 percent of the world’s oil; we only produce 2 percent of the world’s oil.

Hmmm. “We only produce 2 percent of the world’s oil” the man said? Seems like that would be pretty easy to check… How about Wikipedia, whose source on world oil production is the CIA World Factbook. (Figures are for crude oil plus natural gas liquids; b/d = barrels per day.)

Russia – 10.5 million b/d, 12.0% of world total
Saudi Arabia – 8.8 million b/d, 10.0% of world total
United States – 7.8 million b/d, 8.9% of world total
Iran – 4.2 million b/d, 4.8% of world total
China – 4.0 million b/d, 4.6% of world total
H/T Andy Dean

I suppose you could give the guy the benefit of the doubt — he was probably going for what I’ve called The Big Energy Lie — the idea that our energy potential is limited because the U.S. has only 2% of the world’s reserves. To me, that’s a deliberate attempt to mislead the public. “Reserves” — an engineering term of art — have no relationship with “resources”, the true estimate of potential.

Our resources are only limited by our ingenuity and our will.

But I truly think that nobody cares. Not the President, his advisors, his speechwriters, or even his trusty teleprompter. After all, there’s an election to win!

Resources, reserves, production . . . As a famous man once said, “Words. Just words.”

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