The US should be exporting oil and not importing it; we simply have more of it than anybody else does. The ONLY way to get there from here as I see it is the same way you stop smoking, i.e. totally ban the importation of oil on a single day and deal with the consequences. If you managed it properly, it would mess us up about as badly as we were during WW-II for about a year or a year and a half. At the end of the year or 1.5 years, we’d be in vastly better shape than we are now and all of the rogue states and terror organizations in the world would be on life support or dead. The Saudis would be back to living in tents and riding camels.
You haven’t thought this through very well have you?
Prior to WW II this country was primarily an agricultural nation with maybe 20% of the population living in cities. Most of the population worked at home or walked to work.
Today more than 80% of the population lives in cities and the vast majority of the population commutes to work with the vast majority of the commuters driving their personal car to and from work.
If as you say we were to totally ban the importation of oil on a single day and deal with the consequences This country would go from being the economic power house of the world to being a third world basket case with food riots and people starving in the streets.
I’ll deal with the terrorist thank you very much if your solution is the only other option (which it is not).
We don’t have more of it than anyone else. Our production peaked decades ago.