Higher energy costs will not help to ease inflation.
According to Fox Business, inflation and the bank crisis are over. Happy days are here again.
If, and this is a very big IF, the US loosened the reins a bit (well, a whole lot) on domestic oil production, the local production of oil would ramp us just about as fast as the OPEC countries and Russia are cutting back, making again a surplus supply across the world, and the US would be profiting from net oil exports. Assured dominance for at least a decade or more, until the electric grid finally catches up with the proposed demands being made upon on the existing infrastructure.
This is but a bridge to the future. No bridge, no future.