@mrmhead Said
Are you implying it takes more than two years to survey, test, design, secure approvals, plan, build out infrastructure, and construct an oil well?
Pretty much.
Also... I forget all the facts (and am not in the mood to google or wikipedia the topic right now) but I'm pretty sure that the USA has had an over all increase in oil production for roughly the last 100 years.
There were periodic drops in production. If memory serves (and it might not), oil production in the USA dropped for a number of years, which was most likely linked to the increase in oil production by middle east OPEC nations, in the 60-70's. Then after a time it increased again. Then dropped off again (I want to say late Bush-Clinton-Bush... but I might be off on that point). Then increased; late Bush-Obama continuing now in Trump times.
As an analogy it is a little bit like the "Fed" controlling interest rates; the rates being artificially raised or lower depending on the economy.. Oil production is increase or lowered based on the oil companies' desired profit goals; the "reduction" is often done by "capping" oil well.... etc...
Anyway, the idea that Trump has done any of this (economy, employment, oil production, etc) is beyond naive and pretty much demonstrates willful ignorance and/or lack of knowledge of both U.S. history and current events by anyone making claims that Trump is actually responsible.