The Sage of Main Street
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Not necessarily.
Since nationalization would remove the US from the global oil market, the US can set the price of gas itself because it controls its own supply of oil.
The US is currently a net exporter of oil and natural gas combined:
Since 2018, however, the United States has been the largest producer of oil and gas in the world and a net exporter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...producer-why-youre-going-pay-more-gas-anyway/
So if we held back all domestically-extracted natural gas and oil, we'd end up with more than we need.
Let's Secede and Put an Oil Embargo on the Blue-State Union