Obama's oil press conference lie

At a press conference today, President Obama unleashed a real whopper of a lie today. "We're producing more oil and we're importing less."

Huh?

If fact, as the graphic in a Hot Air post show, the opposite is true.

This wasn't a slip of the tongue. On the White House blog, the administration boasts, "In fact, oil production last year rose to its highest level since 2003."

On Wednesday, a coalition of business groups, including the National Black Chamber of Commerce and the Offshore Marine Service Association, wrote a letter to Congress asking that it hold Interior Secretary Ken Salazar accountable and compel him to end the Gulf of Mexico drilling "permatorium."

Which country has the largest reserves of fossil fuels? Saudi Arabia? No. Russia. Close.

It's the United States.

Oil. Coal. There it is. Take it.

Of course Obama said three years ago that energy prices "would necessarily skyrocket" if he had his way.

Which led Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a possible presidential candidate to Tweet, "Now that Obama and Chu's policies are working--pushing gas prices near $4--he's running away from his promise to send prices skyrocketing."

Also in 2008, Steven Chu, who is now Obama's Energy Secretary, declared, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe."

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