Figuring Out Our Energy Policy

So I figured out America's oil policy.  It's a long-term policy but our grandchildren or their children will reap all the rewards.

By making sure we don't pump oil in the U.S. and purchase all our oil from other countries instead, we will eventually run all of them out of oil.  When this occurs years down the road, we'll be the only country left standing with oil.  Then the Arabs and Russians and Venezuelans will have to buy their oil from us.  We'll be able to to sell it to them for $500 per barrel or whatever price we want.  Someday all Americans will be billionaires and acquire even more obnoxious habits like current oil barons.  We'll all be crude because of crude!

There may be only one problem with this theory -- assuming, as I believe, it is official policy.  When the other countries finally run out of oil, there may no longer be a need for oil as other energy alternatives may be developed.  To stop this from happening, we must buy and bury all alternative energy proposals and we can never, and I mean never, drill for oil for the rest of this century.

I'm pretty sure I'm right on this.