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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
So.. it increased 4% on federal lands then?
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No. I'm saying that 4% of the increase came on federal lands. That's not the same thing as saying that it increased by 4% on federal lands.
The fact that oil production is up a bit on federal lands is not proof that Obama is pro-oil. If oil production is up 5%, but the oil companies say it could be up by 500% if Obama would let them drill, that doesn't paint a pro-oil picture to me.
Frame it however you want. The fact is, liberals are less apt to allow drilling on federal lands than conservatives. If Obama increases production, but that increase is a small fraction of what it could have been, that's worth mentioning.
Just because production is up a bit on federal lands, doesn't mean that pro-drilling folks have nothing to complain about. The relevent statistic isn't how much production increased. What matters is, how much un-tapped wealth are we sitting on for the sake of ideology?
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