Oct 16, 2012 ... President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sparred during the second presidential debate over drilling policy on federal lands. Romney said -- among other things ... It's also similar to a claim we checked a few weeks later, that oil "production's down where Obama's in charge." We'll recap our analysis here.
Oct 5, 2012 ... "All of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land," Romney said. "On government land, your administration has cut the number of permits and licenses in half." The facts: The Republican nominee's assertions can be broken down into two parts. The first has to ...
Jan 15, 2016 ... There is a great irony that spans the presidential terms of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. President Bush, widely viewed as a Texas oil man, presided over eight straight years of declining U.S. crude oil production. In the year 2000, just before President Bush took office, U.S. crude oil production ...
Oct 19, 2012 ... Romney exaggerated, however, when he said the number of new permits and new leases for onshore drilling also declined by half under Obama. The decline isn't that steep. Obama was wrong when he told Romney it's “just not true” that domestic oil production on federal lands is down 14 percent and gas ...
Jan 28, 2015 ... "You can't credit or blame the president [for the oil boom]," said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst with the Oil Price Information Service. "It's been the twin pillars of price and technology. It's capitalism at work." presidents oil production. Production is up only slightly on federal lands, contributing to the boom towns ...
Says oil "production's down where Obama's in charge."