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issues...i.e. "U.S. Energy Independence". To further backup the message in the OP video, Ive attached a print version with quotes from Oil Industry experts, and here's a key excerpt......Bottom Line...all that Trump is doing is helping his O&G buddies squeeze the last bit of profits out of a dying resource...at the expense of our children's and grandchildren's future well-being and security. For your own good, please watch the OP video (again, if necessary), and read the entire attached article. I'm not making any of this up...and I'm NOT passing this information on to you for any political reasons.

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Amid the US boom in oil and gas production from hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, the quantity of US imports of crude oil and petroleum products has been trending downward since early in the second term of President George W. Bush. But there are numerous reasons why the US doesn’t just stop importing entirely.

One key reason is that there is a mismatch between many of the refineries in the US, which were designed to handle heavy crude oil, and the lighter crude that is produced in the US through fracking.

Another reason is that domestic energy production isn’t sufficient to fulfill the needs of all US refineries – for which it can be profitable to buy low-cost unfinished energy from abroad, turn it into higher-value petroleum products, and then export some of those products. Colgan noted in an email that even at moments when the US is a net exporter of oil, “it remains tightly integrated into the world market for oil, constantly exporting some grades of oil to foreign customers while importing other grades of oil into the United States. Same for oil products like gasoline and diesel.”

Geographic factors are also at play. For example, refineries in California have relied on imports, some from Russia, because importing has been cheaper than getting oil shipped from various parts of the US, such as the Permian Basin in the Southwest, to which California has no pipeline connection.

Unless the US shifts completely to renewable or nuclear energy, Krane said in an interview, “we are going to be tethered to supply lines that stretch halfway around the world whether we like it or not.”
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Link: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/energy-independence-fact-check/index.html