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Not per capita. Norway produces roughly 6x more oil than the US per capita. Also, TIL that Guyana is the world's top oil producer per capita.

See: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-prod-per-capita?count...

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You're forgetting the us is #1 in producing natural gas, at 1,069,000m3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_g...

Russia and Iran are the second and third largest suppliers, but their goods are sanctioned. They also 'only' produce half / a quarter of US output.

Also contrast this with, China (#4) and Qatar (#6) that produce 258 and 170 billion m3 respectively.




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