Selling to the american citizens I hope you mean. If we need more oil and gas then don't allow it to be shipped away. What's the point of drilling alot more and allowing it to be shipped away if we need it? If it's drilled on our land then it's our oil not the oil company's.
Well the corner stone of industry is oil. everything from cosmetics, medicine, refrigeration, plastics to fuel comes from oil. when there's a higher demand for oil than what is produced, it cost more, the same in reverse, more supply of oil, the lower the cost to purchase it. Trump was exporting oil for the first time in decades and we were making money.
Biden cut off the US oil supply, cancelled permits, inflation went through the roof, doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that, when SHTF in the Middle East and oil production is either threaten or reduced, cost of oil goes up, when the cost goes up, everything that requires oil, that cost also goes up.
Oil futures is also a factor, relationships between the oil producing countries and non-producing countries is a factor.
When Biden cut off our oil and cost skyrocketed, he asked the Saudi's to lower the cost of their oil, they snubbed him, raised prices even, that's why Bidden tapped our oil reserves.
Oil is everything, everything depends on oil. its why the Western World is so involved in the Middle East