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)
we don't need to bend to the whims of any "international" market, we have shitloads of oil at home.
Correct. And now we have first right to Venezuela's.
And Canada's too! The USA has "dibs" on Canadian oil. We can't sell it to ourselves without giving the USA the "right" to buy it at that price too. Good for USA, bad for Canada.
Add to that 10+ years of incompetent communist Federal governments who REFUSE to allow Alberta to prosper. Or SK or MB, or even their darling Maritimes who also have some oil.
Eastern Canada & Quebec would rather buy oil from Saudi Arabia than from Western Canada.
For a bunch that pretends to be capitalist, you sure have difficulty understanding how it works.
If the international oil market says that oil is $200, then foreign buyers will be willing to pay up to $200 for oil, including American oil. This means that you will be paying $200 for oil. The "we produced this at home" participation trophy won't do you any good when you're consuming that oil as an input.
Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services. It is an explicitly individualist metric, measurable by how much choice the individual has in their conduct of trade.
It is not internationalist banking cartels comprised of foreigners zeroing out your choices for you.
In point of fact the latter has far more in common with centralized economies than with capitalism.
But you're a leftist so you believe that the presence or claim of profit equates to capitalism, because you use that word as a boogeyman.
Ironically, the way the US can be not hurt by rising oil prices is by forbidding exports. But you won't. Because capitalism.
What?! I thought I was Bolshevik! I demand a retraction. Knowing you, you will probably try the save by claiming they're the same thing.
Sadly it's not up to me. But then, if it were, a great many things would be different.
There is no meaningful difference between any variety of the left.
A liberal is a leftist is a socialist is a communist.
It's all shit. And the only thing you need to know about shit is that you shouldn't get it on you.
You might claim to be a connoisseur of shit, claim to tell me the difference between cow shit and dog shit and pig shit. But I don't care. Because it's all shit.