{"id":16304,"date":"2025-02-03T12:47:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16304"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:48:31","slug":"why-does-the-us-import-oil-when-they-produce-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16304","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The US Import Oil When They Produce So Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite producing tons of oil, the U.S. still imports a lot of oil. The stuff we produce can&#8217;t be refined by our refineries, so we ship it out to be refined and import foreign oil to refine here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Does The US Import Oil When They Produce So Much?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/evIAnt5mNGI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite producing tons of oil, the U.S. still imports a lot of oil. The stuff we produce can&#8217;t be refined by our refineries, so we ship it out to be refined and import foreign oil to refine here. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=evIAnt5mNGI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,1248,290,576,1265,226],"class_list":["post-16304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-imports","tag-oil","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16306,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions\/16306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}