We’re already saying what WILL work:
Increase supply of oil by drilling domestically.
Increase energy production in general by building more nukes.
The dhimmirats’ solution is to tax the oil companies and “invest” this in pie-in-the-sky “alternative energy” projects that aren’t feasible in the short term, and in most cases, even in the long term.
There are other opinions.
> Increase supply of oil by drilling domestically
This is a good idea. Essentially everywhere it makes economic sense to drill we should be drilling.
It is probably not possible for the USA to become completely independent of oil imports purely by drilling domestically.
It might be possible for the USA to become independent of “shipped” imported oil (continuing imports from Canada and Mexico) if we embarked on a massive coal derived synfuel program.
> Increase energy production in general by building more nukes
This is also a very good idea. Although the USA has not built any new commercial nuclear power plants in decades, the US Navy has plenty of experience. We could be building safe modular reactors on US military bases to power the entire country.
Existing coal power plants could be converted into coal-to-liquids production, once the baseline electrical load is supplied by nuclear power.
The production cost of coal in parts of the USA is dirt cheap - less than $5 per ton. From a BTU equivalent that would be less than $1.50 per barrel of oil. We would not need a strategic petroleum reserve if we had the infrastructure to convert 5 million tons of coal into oil per day.