Oil prices are not changing, because we are self sufficient in oil for the first time in years.
Jefferson was tired of the piracy in the Middle East from the Barbary Coast pirates. He moved by removing the problem. For 200 years they were silent.
It wasn’t until the West became weak that the problem began again in the Middle East. Mainly because the left hurt our ability to be self sufficient in oil.
Its is time to do the same thing by putting the fear of God in them.
We are self sufficient in oil for the first time in years, so we do not need to keep making them rich. Time to make a statement like Jefferson did.
I guarantee you they will back off, because the only thing they fear is strength.
Jefferson didn’t solve the piracy problem, he merely mitigated it. It wasn’t until the French colonised North Africa that they stopped doing that crap. Maybe Somalia and a few other states need recolonising.