Fact Checking Obama's State of the Union speech -- Energy

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David Middleton writes about himself at Watts Up With That:
I have been a geoscientist in the evil oil and gas industry for almost 30 years. My favorite hobby is debunking the junk science of the radical environmentalists... Particularly the junk science of anthropogenic global warming.
His post looks at some of Obama's talking points and proceeds to refute them:
SOTU: Energy Fabrications, Falsehoods and Fantasies
During his State of the Union Address, President Obama had a few things to say about energy and I have a few replies.
Pres. Obama: We buy� less foreign oil than we have in 20 [years].
Wrong!!! We buy more �foreign oil� now than we did 20 years ago.
Pres. Obama: We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years.
What do you mean by �we�? You don�t produce any oil.

See that decline in Federal Gulf of Mexico production from ~1.7 MMbbl/d to ~1.4 MMbbl/d since early 2010?

You actually did build that.
David goes on for a couple more -- each of his refutations are backed up with data from the following sources:
U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Imports by Country of Origin
U.S. Energy Information Administration, Crude Oil Production
Quest Offshore Resources, Inc. The State of the Offshore U.S. Oil and Gas Industry, December 2011
Office of Natural Resource Revenue, Statistical Information
Pants on fire...

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