The International Energy Agency is scrambling to propose the largest release of strategic oil reserves in its history as crude prices spiral out of control during the escalating U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, according to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday.
But here's the million-dollar question Patriots should be asking: Why are we even in this position when America sits on more oil reserves than any nation on Earth?
The answer lies in four years of the disastrous Biden regime that systematically dismantled American energy independence while draining our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to prop up his failing presidency. Now, as tensions explode in the Strait of Hormuz—the world's most critical oil chokepoint—we're seeing the catastrophic results of putting globalist climate ideology above national security.
Iran's Chokehold on Global Energy
The Strait of Hormuz handles roughly 20% of the world's oil traffic, and Iran knows it. As the Islamic Republic escalates its proxy war against Israel and American interests, they're wielding energy as a weapon—just like Russia did to Europe.
This is exactly the kind of crisis President Trump warned about when he championed his "America First" energy agenda. Under Trump's first term, the United States became a net energy exporter for the first time in generations. We didn't need to beg international bureaucrats for oil releases because we were pumping our own liquid gold.
But the Biden administration spent four years attacking American energy producers, canceling pipelines, restricting drilling permits, and virtue-signaling to the climate cult while our enemies grew stronger.
"We're now dependent on the whims of global energy markets and foreign powers because Democrats chose green fantasies over American energy dominance," one energy analyst told this reporter.
The Trump-Vance administration's "Drill, Baby, Drill" agenda couldn't come at a more critical time. While international agencies scramble to manipulate oil markets, America should be flooding the world with cheap, abundant domestic energy.
The question isn't whether we can solve this crisis—it's whether we'll learn from the catastrophic mistakes of putting globalist ideology above American energy independence. Our national security depends on it.