This one week was a bit of fluke. It was just the first time we cracked the balance point, during a week, in 74 years.
At the rate we are going, it will be another year or more before we are consistently a net exporter, but the trend is definitely heading that way.
We are in the midst of a production boom, and we are already solidly the World’s biggest producer of oil, and also the World’s biggest producer of natural gas.
The US being 100% energy independent, would mean the middle east no longer matters to US domestic policy... which would liberate us from subsidizing their insanity, and terrorism.
Let China, Russia and Europe have that mess.