They will begin aquisition for domestic oil when they are no longer making a killing on Middle Eastern oil, but that is never going to happen because our oil barrons are the ones running the government here, and they are all in bed with the Middle Eastern oil barrons, not to mention most of the oil companies are now owned by middle easterners anyway. You had better learn to be really self sufficient real quick because with California being destroyed by fire we are losing about 50% of our food supply. Then we have the floods in the middle of America where our wheat, potatoes and most of our dairy and meat comes from. We haven't begun to see the effects too much yet, but just wait a couple of years, the Potato famine in Ireland will look like a small problem  in comparison. Just wait until several million people go to the store and there is no food to buy.