Obama blocks oil production but some states just plow ahead anyway:
North Dakota produced a record amount of crude oil in 2013 — 313.5 million barrels, about 70 million more than the previous high mark a year earlier, state data show.
The tally, up nearly 29 percent from 2012, marks the sixth consecutive record year for oil production in North Dakota, which is the nation’s No. 2 oil producer behind Texas.
Lynn Helms, director of the state Mineral Resources, said Friday that North Dakota produced an average of 923,227 barrels of oil daily in December.
The US used less than 19 million barrels of oil daily in 2011. Essentially, a state with not even a half of a percent of the US population in it, produces more than 4% of the Country’s oil need. Meanwhile, Obama on the Federal level tries to choke off oil production but then he turns around and takes credit for the fact that the US – due to a weak economy plus increased State oil production – is now less dependent on foreign oil.