Despite nearly eight years of anti-oil rhetoric, President Barack Obama may be the most pro-oil president in U.S. history. Chief among the reasons supporting this claim are that, under Obama’s tenure in office: the 40-year oil export ban was lifted, shale production increased dramatically (up 400 percent since 2008) and oil and natural gas production are increasing exponentially. Steve Payne, former adviser to President George W. Bush, president of Linden Energy, and one of the chief players in lifting the 40-year oil export ban, reached out to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “In spite of President Obama’s efforts to stymie the oil and gas industry, US oil and gas production has increased by 90 percent during his first 7 years in office and oil imports are down 28 percent ,” Payne tells TheDCNF. A great driver of this increase is the repeal of the 40-year oil export ban passed […]