For the last 30 years, every single president and most of congress has worked to make America ‘interdependent’ instead of independent.
When we are interdependent,our economy can be looted in the name of globalism by the globalist thugs running our government.
Oil is just one cog in the gear of interdependence.
I agree with your “Interdependent” assessment... however, I think it goes far deeper than this... If we are interdependent, then we have to have force projection, in other words, we are not an independent nation with sufficient offensive capability to not go on the defensive, but we have in fact become the “Worlds Policeman”... and that is something we have no business being..