Commentary Fresh after publicly begging Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to produce more oil and natural gas to ease a global supply crunch and skyrocketing energy prices, the Biden administration is nonsensically considering shutting down an American pipeline that’s crucial to our energy security. The question is, why? For more than 40 years, America was held hostage to the whims of OPEC and other foreign energy producers who were hostile to our national interests. For more than four decades, politicians on both sides of the aisle lamented our foreign oil dependency and dreamed of a day when America would become energy independent. Thanks to American innovation revolutionizing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, during the Trump administration, the United States became the world’s leading oil producer and produced more oil and natural gas than we used. America additionally benefited from a helping hand from Canadian oil …