It’s a start.
How much of the price of NYMEX crude is du to speculation?
How much oil could be produced domestically if every spare resource were put to work producing oil?
Better have some of the crew building refineries and other infrastructure as you go, and shuttling a few off to work on some nuke plants would do a lot to cut the heating costs for those who use natural gas in the winter.
This (energy in general) is a problem which has been largely ignored while things were cheap, or hammered by the econazis, and we have a bunch of catching up to do all around.