We COULD be, but US companies are making back off of exporting oil. We are exporting record amounts of oil to other countries. Mr Global on YouTube does an excellent job of explaining the intricacies of oil and gas industry.

Look up a youtube channel called Mr. Global. He used to work some huge oil companies for decades, and ran his own for a bit. He breaks down a ton of this stuff.

For one, Iran is blocking a major shipping route for Iraq, Kuwuit, and Saudi Arabia. Even though we don’t import that much from there, the rest of the world does, and so supply is down, but demand remained the same. For two, the US oil companies are making record oil exports to these other countries that used to get their supply from the middle east.