Obama claims credit for Oil Production increases????

Really??? Really? Does anyone with half a brain actually think that Obama has anything at all to do with increased oil production in the US? Of course not. Its Capitalism at work folks!. Think about it...oil is selling at $100 per barrel or thereabouts and your business is to produce oil. And your competition in the middle east simply has to turn up production. And every barrel that is purchased from the middle east, is one highly profitable barrel you could produce here in the US. Of course, you will apply as many places as possible to drill for more oil. The laws of capitalism make that happen. No the headlines should read the opposite..."Oil Production up since Obama took office IN SPITE of Obama". Proof positive that Capitalism works and the socialistic agenda of Obama and company does not work. The government energy policy does not exist. There is no policy. But in spite of that oil producers have ramped up their production. And instead of sending that money to Saudi Arabia, the approximately 10% increase in US production since Obama took office stays here. A drop in the bucket, but nevertheless the best that could be done given the largest roadblock to energy independence - OBAMA. Can you imagine what production and refining (and thereby gas prices) would be like if Obama actually had an energy policy which included among other things approving pipeline construction like Keystone? If we had leadership in this country, we would have an energy policy declaring energy independence by 2025 (or some date), with a plan to fullfill the goal, and guess what? Gas prices would be dropping today with the knowledge that we have a plan. That is what Obama could do right now.