{"id":7075,"date":"2026-02-28T03:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7075"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:39:06","slug":"trump-in-corpus-christi-touts-surging-oil-natural-gas-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7075","title":{"rendered":"Trump in Corpus Christi Touts Surging Oil, Natural Gas Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Donald Trump touted results of his energy policies in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, including falling gas prices, increased oil and natural gas production, and rising liquified natural gas exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">Trump addressed dock workers at the Port of Corpus Christi, with the Gulf of America, adorned with oil tankers, including one packed with hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil, serving as his backdrop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2027503632153808925\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2027503632153808925\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn day one. I declared a national energy emergency, I ended the Biden export ban, and I told our great Texas energy workers to, very simply, drill baby drill,\u201d the president said to cheers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince my inauguration, U.S. oil production is now up by 600,000 barrels a day, natural gas production is at an all-time record high by far, and today, right here in Corpus Christi, the price of gasoline is down to just less than, actually now, $2.30,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The president noted that on a recent trip to Iowa, he saw prices as low as $1.99 and $1.85.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re witnessing a historic American energy boom like we\u2019ve never seen, and this port is right at the center of the action,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump noted that he approved key funding for the port in his first term, and that former President Joe Biden attempted to cut off the funding after assuming office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the dock workers, energy workers, and great people of Texas, once again, really have a president that loves our country, a president who fights for our country, and a president who\u2019s got your back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2027504157934965206\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2027504157934965206\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The president highlighted that liquified natural gas exports are up 37 percent and over the last year are at \u201cthe highest level in American history.\u201d He also noted that crude oil exports have climbed by hundreds of thousands of barrels daily under his watch.<\/p>\n<p>Trump emphasized that the United States has taken in \u201c80 million barrels of oil\u201d from Venezuela thus far since Operation Absolute Resolve, where U.S. forces captured former dictator Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the benefit of both our nations, we\u2019re going to refine their oil right here in America and right here in Texas and then export it to all over the world,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to keep some for ourselves. We\u2019re going to give some to them, and they\u2019re going to make more money than they\u2019ve ever made before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll help build their country again, which was a disaster, and we\u2019re going to build it up, and we\u2019re going to benefit also, and that\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/27\/trump-in-corpus-christi-touts-surging-oil-natural-gas-production-falling-gas-prices\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump touted results of his energy policies in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, including falling gas prices, increased oil and natural gas production, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}