Oil and water Middle East

After reading the article on the U.S's dependency on oil in the Middle East I believe that it needs to be stopped soon. The U.S can't rely of the Middle East so heavily because then they can just control us by raising oil prices. The U.S should find a reliable alternative source of energy so that we can make decisions not based on whether it would anger OPEC or not. Another solution could be to take oil that is in the U.S. Alaska has a lot of oil that the U.S could dig into and supply ourselves with so that we are not as reliant on the Middle East.

I believe that the U.S should be very worried about the water crisis in the Middle East. Water is very important because you can't make oil without having water. Therefore since they are running low on water, oil will become harder to make and more valuable. This will either raise the price of oil a lot of stop the production of oil.