I don’t know, the US is the world‘s largest oil producer, and there’s a lot of people in America who are very happy about the high oil prices. Doesn’t exactly trickle down to the average American though. But there are many other industries is that matter a whole lot more to the US economy, for example, if Taiwan stop selling chips to the US, we would be really screwed.

Oil can't be the whole story, can it? If it was, we'd be more heavily investing in moving away from oil.

From what I can tell, it's as much extremism of "democracy", religion, and a version of "manifest destiny" as anything else