Pretty sure the host countries make more than our companies do for their services. You do realize until recently the Saudi owned Aramco was the largest company (value) in the world? The ME has crazy wealth because of oil. We never took it from them.....we supplied a market for them.
In 2018 Aramco profited $111 billion. Sorry we didn't take it from them.
Oil companies like Exxon get oil from all over including the US, Canada, Mexico etc....
Its fucking retarded that people somehow think that we just go in and take the oil. We don't even get a fucking discount.
I think the fact that I can buy a gallon a gas for 1/3 less than a gallon of milk is amazing.