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Trump’s energy initiatives may finally extract America from Mideast chaos

U.S. is still short of the 20 million barrels per day of oil we consume, but we are getting closer

By Dan Doyle Fox News

Published June 1, 2026 5:00am EDT

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The way to solve the Middle East problem is to leave the Middle East problem. From the madness, a pattern is emerging: barrels are being rounded up in the Americas and the United States is quietly assembling the pieces of a new energy isolationism.

It started with "Drill, Baby, Drill," the long-in-the-tooth bit of campaign rhetoric. Then came the January 2025 National Energy Emergency proclamation. Then the Big Beautiful Bill and rolled-back regs for oil and gas producers and consumers. Then Venezuela and its enormous reserves. And now the lessons of playing with fire in the Strait of Hormuz. The collective result is a reshuffling of U.S. energy access.

"Let them all do it. What the hell are we doing it for?" President Donald Trump recently declared, suggesting Europe, China, Korea and Japan should be the ones to open and police the Strait of Hormuz. "We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil they so desperately depend........

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