“Their product is an abomination that should have been obsolete after World War II demonstrated the fragility of the supply line”
A war involving hundreds of nations and millions of people probably demonstrates the fragility of the supply lines for plenty of resources.
Your point is?
WWII showed us that wars can be won or lost not on the strength of one's army, but on the might of a nation's industry. AND the ability to deliver that materiel to where it is needed.
Patton's tanks ran out of gas as he was pushing toward the Rhine in 1944. Hitler suffered chronic shortages of fuel, which hampered his efforts to prosecute the war on every front. When the Allies looked for strategic targets to bomb, the Ploesti oil fields were at the top of the list.
We should have learned our lesson then, and said "Never again." Never again will this country be put at risk because we lack adequate fuel. And if we can't get that fuel from oil, which apparently we can't -- at least in sufficient quantities to control the prices to any reasonable extent -- then we need to get it somewhere else. ANYWHERE else.