You completely missed the point.
A tariff only on Middle Eastern oil to allow our domestic supplies to be built and the necessary infrastructure put in place. ONLY on Middle eastern imports.
The government is NOT in the way to the extent that they are keeping prices high, they are in the way as far as keeping the infrastructure here from getting built.
But price competition is NOT why we aren’t building our domestic supply. Government interference, including outright bans on developing certain reserves, are what’s doing it. It doesn’t matter how expensive you make ME oil as long as our government stands against domestic oil we will not build the infrastructure.