claim: "we now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11."
author: john kerry
evidence_1: sep 8, 2011 ... the world changed when those buildings fell---the way we work, get around,  communicate, dream. and then, slowly but surely, it was back to the business of  making a ... also imports from china, 9/11 has actually helped us to be more ... a  dent in demand for oil as an energy source, the price of crude will ...
evidence_2: mar 21, 2013 ... now that the tenth anniversary of operation iraqi freedom has ... we were  importing the highest amount of oil from iraq before we ... we were far more  dependent on imported oil then than we are now. ... in other words, if we did go to  war for oil in iraq, the american left is as ..... it had nothing to do with 9/11.
evidence_3: may 18, 2017 ... now he's going there on his first foreign trip. ... we will be expected to forget  how trump blasted the saudi royals for being ... asked if he would be willing to “ stop buying oil from the saudis” if they refused to ... while visiting a country that  has perhaps done more than any other to incite, fund, and fuel it.
evidence_4: in 2000, half the oil we consumed was imported. ... where will it come from? ...  since saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 and osama is his enemy, why the ...  he must be stopped now before he has nuclear weapons, which he might then  one ... we shall certainly provoke him to do what we, allegedly, most fear–hit us  with ...
evidence_5: may 3, 2016 ... for it's oil that makes the world go round, at least until we figure out how to ... few  will still deny that america's war in iraq, so costly in blood and ... now is in a much  stronger position on foreign oil imports than, say, 15 years ago. ... nigeria are  supplying almost 100 million barrels more than five years before, ...