Forecast Mostly sunny Highs 55 to 60 Current conditions for Sioux City . The mark of a newspaper approved classified. Terms of use agreement Best viewed with Netscape Communicator . President Clinton is responsible for a 17 percent decrease in U.S. oil production. The already wealthy Middle East is greedily extorting even more dollars from Americans.
Ethanol is the solution to imported oil, and to the problems of the family farm.
But let's take a closer look. Yes, oil production has declined under Clinton. And during just the four years of the Bush administration, Alaskan production declined 15 percent. After production peaked in 1970, lower 48 state production has declined almost 50 percent. But declining oil production is controlled by geology, and Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton had nothing to do with it.