Hannity said that under Trump, 'We didn’t import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia' FACT CHECK: In 2019, the U.S. imported about 500K barrels from Saudi Arabia per day. In 2017 and 2018, the U.S. imported about 949K and 870K barrels per day
, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Imports also came from other countries in the Middle East.
In 2017 and 2018, Trump’s first two years as president, the U.S. imported about 949,000 and 870,000 barrels of crude oil per day, respectively. In 2020, when demand crashed in the middle of the year because of the pandemic, the number was down to about 498,000 barrels per day. "It’s wrong," Mark Finley, the fellow in energy and global oil at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, said of Hannity’s claim.
Experts told PolitiFact that the U.S. still relies on imported oil, including from the Middle East, even as it moves toward greater energy independence. "In the last few years, the U.S. has come very close to producing as much oil as it consumes," added Severin Borenstein, the faculty director of the Energy Institute at Haas at the University of California, Berkeley. "But that does not mean we don't import oil. We still import and export to match crude locations and types most efficiently with refineries."Canada and Mexico are currently the U.S.’s main sources of imported oil due to cheaper transportation costs.
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