Two can play that game.
Simply impose a $40/bbl tariff on imported crude.
Hell, that should have been done 40yrs ago.
Oh Noes!
Import tariffs!
Isolationist! Nativist! Xenophobe! Muslophobe! Heretic!
You must be banished for even breathing such a thing! The Bush family will send Mexican assassins to do away with you!
We cant have secure supplies of our own! We cant have an independent economy! Noooooooo....that would keep us out of Arab wars, insane Islamic internecine fights! We can’t have that!
Don’t you understand?! This is the New World Order!
Interdependent economies, chronically underperforming, permanent warfare and policy dictated by a self selcting transnational elite!
It’s paradise, don’t you understand?!
Er, /s