[QUOTE=PervNerd48;6200363]This post is delusional.
I'll just point out the first quote you made, because it's not my fault your teachers failed to educate you.
"We were energy independent. ".
How do you define this? Because this answer is both true and false. As this columnist said.
[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/10/01/us-energy-independence-has-grown/?sh=646f9e01657e[/URL]
" I am often asked if the USA Is energy independent, or whether we have ever been energy independent. A claim I frequently encounter is that President Trump made us energy independent, and we lost that under President Biden. ".
Before addressing such a claim, you must ensure that everyone is speaking the same language. When someone makes that claim to me, I ask them to define energy independence.
If energy independence means we don't import oil, then that hasn't been true since the 1940's. If it means we export more energy than we import, then we became energy independent in 2019 (following a decade of soaring oil and gas production), but we remain energy independent today.
Others may define energy independence as producing more than we consume. In that case, we reached that milestone in 2020. It was primarily a result of a sharp drop in consumption because of the Covid-19 pandemic, accompanied by a smaller drop in energy production that year. But, that milestone remained intact in 2021. ".
Go turn off Fox News and read a book. Seriously. As the great Dan Quayle once said, "What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have one at all. ".[/QUOTE]It's very refreshing reading an intelligent post for a change. Thanks. The Carlsons and Hannitys of the world have built their mansions spinning half-truths to the gullible. And half-truths of course ultimately mislead and are lies all by their lonesome.
