I thought the US was energy independent. It doesn’t mean they get oil cheap from their own oil companies. Even in wartime emergency situations, the US has to pay market prices so oil companies can exploit and profit. In rich oil states, gas is super cheap. That would never happen in the US where an abundance of oil means gasoline is cheaper than normal. Another example of why everything is more expensive in the West despite how the US claims to have more domestic oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Someone private has to profit is more important than nation security.
As long as the government can tax on those profits, they will jack up the prices.
