We live in a completely different power structure now from 20 years ago. The US has always imported <10% of its oil/gas (if you don't count Canadian source

We live in a completely different power structure now from 20 years ago. The US has always imported <10% of its oil/gas (if you don't count Canadian sources). There has never been a large scale dependence on foreign oil. Most of this was conservative propaganda from the Bush Administration to help justify the war in Iraq. That being said OPEC had some control over the price that oil was traded at, but never the volumes.