US on track to become top oil producer
by
Jeremy Moule
on
November 13, 2012 at 8:57AM
During the presidential campaign, Republican Mitt Romney made some noise about how President Barack Obama was, more or less, standing in the way of increased domestic energy production. The campaign is over, Romney lost, and media outlets are finally picking up on reports that the United States is on pace to pass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer.