Reducing use of oil would be a good thing. But the US does not get most of its oil from hostile powers. The top four countries sending oil to the US are (in order) Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria. Three of the four are friendly (although it is a wonder that Mexico remains friendly given the racist bigotry against Mexican immigrants to the US). Canada and Mexico aren’t OPEC members. The US still produces 30% of the oil it uses, although that fraction will likely decline as there really aren’t any major new oil fields likely to be discovered in the future and the oil from many of the known fields is very expensive to recover (or even dangerous, as the recent blowout in the Gulf of Mexico showed).
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