US Petroleum Increase — Which Graphic Tells The Story?

Here are two graphics from an Oct. 31, 2012 TheOilDrum.com post –

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What the author had to say:

I was able to reproduce his graph using EIA data [the top graph] but I had to include natural gas plant liquids to make it match. W

hen I plotted this data on a more conventional y-axis scale, the enormity of the anomaly shrinks to what it really is [the bottom graph] — namely an increase in overall fossil fuel production within a narrow range of fluctuation over three-and-a-half decades

So which is it: A Big Boom heading us for “Energy Independence” . . . or are we being handed (once again) a big, big bunch of crap?

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