Obama attempts to take credit for oil boom despite his efforts to stymie it

Washington Times:

President Barack Obama took credit once again Tuesday for the U.S. oil-and-gas boom, even though critics have argued that the upswing in oil and natural gas production occurred in spite of his policies.

Mr. Obama told the audience at a gala for Rice University’s Baker Institute that he was “extraordinarily proud of the Paris accords” before saying “I know we’re in oil country and we need American energy.”

“You wouldn’t always know it, but it went up every year I was president,” he said to applause. “That whole, suddenly America’s like the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas — that was me, people.”
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The American Petroleum Institute said in 2013 that “we’re producing more oil and natural gas despite current federal policy, not as a result of it,” noting that production on federal lands plummeted during his tenure while increasing on private lands.

Mr. Obama also promoted policies designed to curb fossil-fuel usage and production, including the Clean Power Plan; the federal methane rule; federal restrictions on hydraulic fracturing; the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, and the Paris climate accord.
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He is the President who responded to Republican Sarah Palin's energy plan of "drill baby drill" with the assertion that the US could not drill its way to cheaper prices.  He was dead wrong but did everything within his power to make it harder to produce oil and gas.   His opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline was nonsensical.  The anti-energy left is still trying to stop the pipeline even though the alternative to it of rail and truck delivery of oil is not as efficient or as safe.

He seems to have a narcissistic personality disorder taking credit for things he actually opposed and also taking credit for a job boom in areas he said jobs would never be coming back.  While Obama was President he pushed less efficient alternative energy and wasted federal resources on several failed projects like Solyndra.