Strategic Natural Resources Reserves

When I was growing up in the 1950's and 1960's (yea that old) there was constant talk about the limits of natural resources and how the US needs to secure rare resources around the world and set aside resources within the US for the time when the rest of the world's resource becomes scarce.

http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/
https://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA581.html

It was good common sense then and now, especially now.  Saudi oil reserves are est. at 268 B barrels,
Venezuela oil reserves are est. at 297 B barrels.  The Saudi's are pumping 10 B barrels per year which will deplete their known reserves in about 27 years. Venezuelans are pumping 434 M barrels which if they don't increase their production (highly unlikely) their supply would last 684 years but when the Saudi supply runs low in 27 years, you can bet the Venezuelans will have increased production to fill the void and their supply may last another 27 to 50 years beyond the Saudi's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Saudi_Arabia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Venezuela

Do we want to use their reserves for the next 50 years of ours?  T-rump what do you think?  I know what the US oil barons think, they think in $$$$$ and don't give a damn about what occurs beyond their life spans.  $ound$ like the GOP think$ only about the almighty dollar too.  The US has fallen woefully behind the Chinese and the Russians in securing rare resources and now we're squandering out oil, gas, coal and other critical resources rather than securing other global resources and keeping ours in the ground until we must access them.  Energy independence sounds patriotic but how patriotic will it be when we are at the mercy of other countries that still have energy resources when ours are exhausted?  Renewable energy is critical to keep our dependence on others low enough to keep the price affordable.

T-rump this is not next quarter's profitability we're talking about this is our kids and their kids' viability.
Sec. Zinke, you continue in the vein that you're following you will doom you grand kids and ours.  You two think about that!  No Global Warming, no sea level rise?  The West Coast rises perhaps 11 inches per century but sea level rise is occurring at 12 inches per century at the current rate which has been accelerating.  A large percentage of the beaches on the West Coast will disappear because just one or two inches of sea level rise changes the system of littoral transport (movement of sand) and beach nourishment will be reduced, starving the beaches of sand.  Gentlemen your ignorance and greed will cost this country Trillions in the next few decades.  And your squandering of our resources could cost this country its sovereignty.