I would pay more for domestically produced oil. Why pay people who hate us for a commodity that we can produce?
If you take the oil money out of the Mid East the Arab nations that sponsor terrorism would collapse.
The other question is: Why protect them with our military, while they are destroying our oil industry?
EXACTLY ! The “Bracewell” Energy Policy - would provide for a $55 minimum/ base price for domestically produced crude oil on Federal Lands. Prices on private land would follow. We would bring back the more than 100,000 jobs recently lost due to low prices from other countries dumping cheap oil onto the US.
How stupid for the US to not have an Energy Policy that provides a fair base price. Without it, US producers are punished with low prices when they successfully find and produce more domestic oil. ( Unfair that a company can put itself out of business by doing its job - producing crude oil! ) Why are we still allowing other countries to dictate US domestic crude prices and limit our oil production? Not only US jobs have been lost but also much tax revenues to cities - schools and hospitals - has been lost due to too cheap oil prices.