A unilateral blockade.
Nuclear weapons cannot be used for most conflicts.
But about 30 middle East countries discovered they can bring the highly leveraged US to their knees by mining/drone attacking the two middle east shipping chokepoints.
Strait of Hormuz — Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates; very near: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq
Bab el-Mandeb — Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea; very near: Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, Oman
(maybe add the straits of singapore too)
Who gives a fuck? Oh no we have less oil! Just stop using it, who cares? "But muh prices are gonna go up" prices are gonna go up anyway. Inflation will be 8.1% this year instead of 8.05%, whatever
This would actually be great for Canada; we have nearly as much oil as the Saudis, not to mention huge LNG reserves and one of the best climates in the world for refining.
It's a bit more expensive to extract than well drilling but the main impediment has been "environmentalism", which is really just a cover for zionism. I'm convinced Israel has been working to centralise global oil production in the region they're in the provess of conquering.
How come Venezuelan oil isn't making even a tiny difference in the price hikes, even after the recent American intervention there? It wasn't to open it to the market, it was to shut it down so ME (read: Israeli controlled) oil would be the only option.
The USA has all the oil it needs for decades. It just needs to remove the barriers to exploit it. ( Insert joke about removing the canadian barrier to the oil. )
It can use those decades to develop more energy efficiency, deport the invaders ( who consume ressources, so ressources last longer ), more electricity generation from other sources like hydroelectricity with high voltage transport lines from Alaska, and nuclear, etc.
One problem: there are NO more large hydro projects left in the Western world. You cannot ship electricity that far, it loses too much of it along the way.
Manitoba tried building at one of the last locations that could be profitable. Thanks to our communist NDP gov't at the time it will never actually pay for itself. The USA gets cheap power from it but not our citizens.
Nuclear is the best and ONLY answer to the upcoming energy shortages. They should have been built long a go but here we are.
Our Carbon Taxes (yes, plural!) have driven the costs of fuel up & crippled the economy. It drives inflation up too.
It's designed to kill the economy and the whole country.
Well its working