Question: Why have Weekly U.S. EXPORTS of Crude Oil doubled since December 2008? [View all]

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Question: Why have Weekly U.S. EXPORTS of Crude Oil doubled since December 2008? And who would it hurt more if the "news" media actually reported this? Could this be contributing to why gasoline priced have stayed so high over the last 3-1/2 years?

Also, could this be another bit of evidence that U.S. Oil Company CEOs, and/or Republican law makers in a position to do such a thing, are deliberately manipulating U.S. Crude Oil Exports to keep the price, per barrel, artificially high in order to hurt President Obama?

Or would the right-wing, Anti-Obama media immediately point to this as "evidence" that the Obama Administration is doing this to keep the price of crude oil and gasoline high in order to push it's "green agenda?" (something I would not want to see happen this close to the election)

I ask because I was just so sick of hearing Romney lie that he will make the U.S. "Energy Independent" if he were elected and was curious to see how much U.S. produced Crude Oil is still being EXPORTED from the U.S., a subject I investigated and watched for several years while GWB was in the White House. I was shocked to find that the amount of U.S. Crude Oil Exports has about DOUBLED since December 26, 2008!!!

Don't believe me? Look at the numbers yourself at the U.S. Energy Information Administration at this link:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WTTEXUS2&f=W

I say this a Romney bold faced lie because, to actually make the U.S. "Energy Independent" I think the U.S. Government would have to Nationalized ALL production of Crude Oil in the United States (i.e., no more private or shareholder controlled U.S. Oil companies) in order to keep U.S. Crude Oil producers from selling U.S. produced Crude Oil on the world crude oil market to anyone outside the U.S.(a.k.a. exporting oil), something "Free Market" Republicans would NEVER go for and would never allow Romney to do.

Btw, if we are EXPORTING almost 3000x1000 barrels per day, like we did during the week ending June 29, 2012, that's about 3 million barrels, per day, that the U.S. is EXPORTING!!!! WTF!?! (the actual number was 2935 x 1000 = 2,935,000 barrels per day)

Anyway, several questions and hypothetical questions here, Discuss.