Yeah. The reality is that the world is still basically an oil economy. It matters and if the U.S. just refused to produce oil because oil=bad that would significantly hurt Americans and the rest of the world while handing leverage and power in the hands of known bad regimes.I'm glad we are producing more of our own oil. Helps offset the power of OPEC and the Saudis to a degree. Sad that most heavy oil-producing nations are either ambivalent or straight up supporting of and/or committing such atrocious human-rights violations. At least we are trying to be one of the good guys.
The sooner we can tell Saudi Arabia to EAD the better. Obviously that will ultimately be when we move on from oil, but until then I feel like it's better to deny them a windfall and a foothold in the international community.