The real problem is that we are nearing the peak of world oil production if we have not already past it.
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You cant possibly be serious. Never mind...
I posted a nice chart here, that shows how your petrol price got so high. It was removed by admin because it made current US administration look like clueless clowns and demonstrated clearly that war in Ukraine nor "peak oil nonsense" has nothing to do with it. It's just long list of stupid political decisions and virtue signalling.
What about oil in other countries?
First, US gets most of it's oil from Canada and Mexico.
Every ME country, US has attacked or is under their BS sanctions is a oil rich country with massive reserves. Only reason US invades those countries, is to keep their oil production to minimum and rob them of what ever they happen to produce (Syria, for example). It has nothing to do with importing "democracy", burgers and brown sugar water.
The US proxy war in Ukraine is just another example of this but with one exception - they are failing miserably because RU has 2 neighbours - India and China.
RU oil export had a awesome year. So is US. US is earning massive profits from gas and oil and the real losers in this game are EU and cannon fodder known as Ukraine. MIC is ecstatic and predicts massive profits for years to come because EU and US need new weapons.
But that's OK. Sky propellers and thousands of square kilometres of PV panels, while killing everything that lives on those lands, will make it all feel "green" and save the day.