The US is self-sufficient in oil because it developed the tech to do fracking of the oil sands, it's nothing to do with Iraq.
Yes, of oil and gas, and they're not producing as much as they could, for environmental reasons. They're holding off on production.
> And I think they're quite environmentally conscious.
They are, they could produce more.
Similar story for the UK and the Netherlands with North Sea gas.
> Also isn't Germany burning coal at record rates right now?
Not record rates, standard rates and declining very slowly (2023 is actually better than 2022, shown here):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany#...
They did mess up the transition with the early decommissioning of nuclear power plants, corruption is probably to blame.