Since your question was the wrong question in the first place, I saved a few steps and inserted the correct answer.
The fact that our country is in the habit of buying cheap oil from the Middle East is an unfortunate circumstance, but we are not going to hear this administration come out and say publicly that it was the oil all along. Not going to happen. Besides, as I have pointed out, it is probably one or both of two other reasons we will never hear mentioned.
"As far as ragging on my Republican Congresswoman..I no longer waste my time trying to sway his opinion."
O.K., same here, actually. My own Congressman is a liberal globalist Republican. Think John McCain as a younger man.
The really unfortunate part is that we've created most of it by electing people in both parties who have caused it over the last 40 yrs. I agree with Paul that we shouldn't be there, but I don't agree with his remedy of folding up and leaving and bringing our armed forces home from everywhere. That's a recipe for disaster. If we were to have a policy of using our own sources which would take years to develop along with a gradual pull-back of the military beginning with places like Germany and Korea, that would make sense. Of course the minute the Saudis started flooding the market with cheap oil, people here would be demanding to buy it again at a lower price and wanting to abandon drilling and exploring here for the same thing that would cost more.
No president can make any kind of long term plan for anything because the next administration can abandon it in 2 - 4 yrs., so I can't see how we'll ever solve anything.