What don’t you understand about the fact that America is already energy independent? I can see why you’d be confused living in censored Europistan.
If ‘energy independence’ means Americans paying $4.23 a gallon because of a blockade in the Persian Gulf, then your definition of freedom is nonsense.
Being a ‘net exporter’ on a spreadsheet doesn’t change the fact that the U.S. still imports 6 million barrels of oil every single day because our refineries can’t even process the shale we drill.
True independence isn’t a political slogan; it’s the physical ability to tell the Middle Eastern regimes to pound sand because their commodity no longer dictates our cost of living.
Until we overproduce every form of energy—shale, nuclear, and renewables—to the point of total market saturation, we’re just a net exporter with a glass jaw, waiting for the next Ayatollah to hike our gas price