I said net exporter, not just merely exporter. And NO, the US is not a net exporter of oil.
Yes, the US export around 3.6M bbl/d in 2022. But, it imported around 6.3M bbl/day in the same year. So, it was a net importer.
The reason why this happens I leave as an exercise for the reader that is so gung-ho in calling others wrong.
> Yes, the US export around 3.6M bbl/d in 2022. But, it imported around 6.3M bbl/day in the same year
You’re wrong, as the other comment points out. But these numbers are so wildly wrong that I’m curious for your source.
(8.5mm b/d in vs 10.15mm b.d out [1] in 2023. If we limit ourselves to crude oil, it's 4.1mm b/d out [2] vs hundreds of thousands in [3]. A literal order of magnitude.)
Yes, oh, the US got a small superavit in 2023. It is still not a relevant net exporter and won't be for the simple reason investments in the development of new fields have basically stopped with the Democrat government. So, the production will inevitably fall in the following years.
Note that this is a "net imports" graph where values below 0 indicate net exports. The graph shows that the last year where the US was a net importer was 2019.
The reason why this happens I leave as an exercise for the reader that is so gung-ho in calling others wrong.