This is an incredibly stupid thing to say
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This seems to be your only comment ???
Oh hello there, a nice example of anti-semitism.
> let’s not pretend that Saudi Arabia is their only shady ally.
Believe it or not, Israel is the only democracy in the area (aside from Kurdish Rojava but that one unfortunately isn't recognized as an independent state).
It’s possible to come up with examples of this for every country, including the United States. That being said, this is whataboutism.
The US used to be the worlds largest net importer of crude oil since at least the 1950s, and only recently (2016 or 2017) got overtaken by China. The US is by far the largest consumer of oil, using circa 20 million barrels per day, while producing around 12.5 million. Besides China, no other country even uses as much oil as the US imports.
Basically, the main differences were in products counted (CNN's headline includes natural gas and refined petroleum products as "oil exports", categories where the US is a heavy exporter) and in timescale. The production stats you cite are rising very rapidly - for reference, in 2018 alone U.S. production increased by 3 million barrels/day, almost 30% yearly. That's growing faster than the tech industry. So the government predicts that by 2021, the import/export shortfall will be completely erased and we'll be a net exporter of petroleum.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/business/us-oil-exports-saudi...
[2] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W...
EIA publishes crude import and export figures directly, see here: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_snd_d_nus_mbblpd_m_cur....
The second line of the above reference shows crude imports at 7.25 million bbls/d and crude exports at 2.57 million, so net imports of crude oil are circa 4.7 million bbls/day. Even this surpasses India (4.5mmbbls/d) and Japan's (3.9mmbbls/d) total usage, and only China and the US itself use more. And of course the original claim that the US is a net exporter of crude oil is completely wrong.
The rest of the statistics needs to be read with caution - what EIA calls "petroleum products" is an odd bunch, ranging from ethane (gas) to petcoke (solid). Such products are not counted in production numbers of Russia and Saudi Arabia, for example, and are also, pound-for-pound, of much lesser value than crude oil. They have a disproportionate share in the US exports. High value products such as gasoline, diesel and jetfuel are consumed "at home".
This decades-long strategy could have worked brilliantly until the end if it wasn’t for clean energy. Now that it’s clear that clean energy sources will replace fossil fuels sooner than later, all the domestic oil sitting in the ground needs to be extracted and sold as fast as possible before it becomes worthless. Since the US and foreign nations won’t depend on oil in the future, the US won’t need its oil reserve and floods the global market with all they’ve got for that sweet, sweet money.