U.S. authorities know exactly where all of its untapped
oil and gas deposits are, and they do not want to
mine any of them right now because they want all of
the other countries to use up all of their oil and gas
deposits before we start using ours.

this is the reason why the U.S. government so tightly
controls the oil and gas drilling and does not issue
very many permits.

(it's cheaper in the long run to buy all of our oil and gas
from foreign countries now, and save all of ours for when
oil and gas are really scarce)