America Is the World’s Biggest Oil Producer. It Still Imports 6 Million Barrels a Day.

The United States produces more oil than any country in history and still imports roughly six million barrels of crude daily. It is not a shortage and it is not politics — most American refineries were built to run heavy, high-sulfur crude, and the shale boom delivered the opposite. We checked the claim against EIA, AFPM and API primary data. The thesis holds. Eight figures in the source brief did…