PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot:

Former President Barack Obama claimed credit Tuesday for the recent boom in U.S. oil production immediately after praising the Paris Climate Accords, which committed the U.S. to dramatically reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

“I was extraordinarily proud of the Paris accords because — you know, I know we’re in oil country and we need American energy, and by the way, American energy production,” Obama told the audience gathered at Rice University’s Baker Institute on Tuesday night. “You wouldn’t always know it but it went up every year I was president. That whole, suddenly America’s like the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas — that was me, people.”

—Obama Claims Credit for Boom in U.S. Oil Production, Praises Paris Climate Accords, National Review Online, today.

● Chaser: Obama: Nation can’t drill its way out of soaring gas prices.

—The Hill, May 6th, 2011.