Events in the Middle East demonstrate that the position of the United States as the world’s leading producer of oil and natural gas, including liquefied natural gas, provides the nation with a large economic and national security advantage in this period of global turmoil.

A focus of President Donald Trump’s administration should be to implement policies that provide incentives for oil and natural gas producers in the Permian Basin to increase production of the two fossil fuels on a sustained basis. Just as the U.S. dollar is the global reserve currency and U.S. Treasuries are the safe-haven asset of the global economy, the vast oil and gas reserves located in the basin could possibly enable the U.S. to become the world’s oil and gas supply buffer in times of crisis in the Middle East. The economies of the world, including the U.S. economy, should not be vulnerable to energy blackmail by Iran or other rogue states.

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