Your last sentence is a hunourous one.  Believe me but may I interject and remind you that the US is not far off from self dependency in oil and have a few tricks up their sleeve...like the likes of Telsa.  They need  our oil as much as we need their coal pollution from the their midwest production states

I hate to say this but the US is flexing their muscle and there is very little we can do about it.  I have often wondered why they have been so nice these decades while compiling up massive billion dollar trade deficits.   

Interesting times to say the least.