[I would rather pay for American energy and the jobs which would come from it, than just continue giving more and more petrol dollars to a bunch of rag heads...]
I was working in the oilpatch in the 80's when they started plugging producing wells in favor of importing Arab oil. A heckuva lot of Americans ended up jobless because of all the goings-on back then. There's a busy oilfield where I live now but I don't trust it. Feast one day, famine the next.
I am retired oil field trash, the industry fell apart in the late 80's when OPEC over produced and drove a great many businesses and workers out. I pulled the pin in 91 when company made a good offer for enhanced early out package.