Recently President Obama went on an Air Force One campaign tour promoting his “energy independence” plan. Looking for photo ops the president stopped in the oil producing region of Eastern New Mexico and West Texas. He made the bold claim, “Under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years.” Of course this claim conveniently forgets two facts. Most of the oil production today is because of the lingering effect of the prior administration’s drilling policies and the impending production shutdown being threatened by his administration of oil production in this very region.
Texas Land Commissioner, Jerry Patterson, weighed in…