The Energy Independence Myth.

Unf*cking The Republic

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week we focus on a thin slice of the energy pie to disabuse the notion of “energy independence.” When politicians reference this concept they speak narrowly in terms of oil and gas production in the United States. As though if we could somehow pump enough of our own oil specifically, we could break our dependence on foreign nations, especially those villainous bad actors like Russia and Iran. Not only is this talking point an illusion, the framing of it is completely false. For starters, we already pump more oil than we consume. Moreover, we import crude and refined oil from allies.

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:00

Post Show Musings: 00:14:42

Outro: 00:20:15

Resources

U.S. Energy Information Administration: What countries are the top producers and consumers of oil?

NRDC: Study Shows 14,000 Unplugged Oil and Gas Wells in Gulf of Mexico

Baker Hughes Rig Count

Marketplace: Why oil companies aren't drilling on those 9,000 land leases

CNN Business: Why oil companies are raking in record profits under Joe Biden

Haas News: Explainer: The myth of 'energy independence'

U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget: Sen. Whitehouse on Fossil Fuel Subsidies: “We Are Subsidizing the Danger”

BLS: Fastest Growing Occupations

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0:00.0	12.9 million barrels of oil per day. That's how much crude oil the United States technically consumes.
0:08.8	12.9 million barrels each and every day. I say technically because crude oil consumption
0:15.6	estimates are just that. Estimates. And I'll explain why in a moment. On the other side of the ledger, we have production.
0:23.8	The United States currently produces around 13 million barrels of oil every day. Well, that's
0:31.3	parity, dead even, which means... It means we import about 8.5 million barrels of oil each day.
0:38.7	Exactly. Wait, what?
0:40.8	That's right. The United States produces enough crude oil to supply the entire nation
0:46.8	so we theoretically don't have to look outside of the U.S. for oil. On paper, that is.
0:53.4	In reality, oil is a lot murkier than that.
0:57.1	Pun intended? Yes, pun intended.
1:00.8	Topical cream, a pod listener's dream, unfucking the news, and current events, topical cream yeah you know what i mean a quarter of an hour gets you
1:20.6	our two cents topical cream i will set a national goal of America and North America, North American Energy Independence by 2020.
1:37.3	North American Energy Independence by 2020.
1:40.3	One area where we've made great progress is American Energy. After years of talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, we are actually poised to control our own energy future.
1:51.0	You ask how long it's going to take to get energy independent?
1:54.0	If Donald Trump is the president, it'll happen almost immediately.
1:57.0	Because we've got so much energy here, we can do it.
2:00.0	I mean, two years to get us back to
2:03.1	where we were because I mean look in in in Pennsylvania in North Carolina I mean in
2:09.7	Florida we've got energy resources that the world would would literally kill for in some cases
2:14.1	some of these countries have actually started wars over the resources we have.
2:18.6	Kamala's entire policy is to buy oil and gas from tin pot dictators all over the world.
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