“We are right now producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.”
What PolitiFact found
The United States produces almost as much oil as Russia and Saudi Arabia combined when measuring the combination of crude oil and natural gas liquids such as butane, ethane and propane — a common way of calculating energy production comparisons. The United States surpasses Russia’s and Saudi Arabia’s combined production after factoring in two obscure production categories: other liquid byproducts and a technical adjustment from measuring changes in volume during the refining process. Only cru...
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In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 23 April 2026. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 April 2026, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-israel-lebanon-ceasef…
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