For the last 30 years, every single president and most of congress has worked to make America ‘interdependent’ instead of independent.
When we are interdependent,our economy can be looted in the name of globalism by the globalist thugs running our government.
Oil is just one cog in the gear of interdependence.
“Watch the oil market folks. The terrible part is the enviro nuts love all this crap especially if it sends the cost of crude skyrocketing to use a Barry coined term.”
Barry cannot afford the price of oil going up. Especially if Keystone gets killed when the next budget bill comes up. The fix is in with the speculators. But with an Iranian crisis in the Gulf, all bets are off.
We get a minute amount of oil from the Gulf. This is
more about the principle of free passage on the high seas.
“None of this would be necessary if we had been drilling for our own oil on our own land.”
None of this would be necessary if we had turned Iran into a parking lot a few decades ago. If it was good enough for Japan, it’s good enough for Iran, N. Korea, etc. We just don’t deal with our enemies any more; we’re too PC.
Now that the US does have that energy policy, however, there is nothing for it but to send a carrier group to the straight of Hormuz. My nephew goes into the IDF in May. The son of a good friend of mine is already done with Basic Training. I see them all the time, everywhere. Pimply-faced, fuzzy cheeked kids in uniform. It’s coming. May G-d watch over them. I’d rather middle-aged old farts like me go to war instead, but that’s not how it works.