Full disclosure, I work for an "energy" company...

The issues driving higher consumer gas prices at the pump are multifaceted and very little is influenced by the big suit sitting in the oval office. Sure macro policy by heads-of-state influence short term price volatility, but they don't create the base market fundamentals.

People tend to overlook the transportation and refining aspect of the equation. You can punch a bunch of new holes in the ground, but that won't help with insufficient take away capacity that handles both the liquids and associated gas. The majority of the new liquid and gas Permian pipes move incremental supply to export terminals, not domestic refineries. If you drill more, it will most likely end up on a boat. Since that boat is not built in the US, it cannot be routed to a US port or refinery. Policy and infrastructure decisions made long ago are the drivers...

Catalytic cracking capacity is also specific to the composition of crude. Refineries, especially along the gulf coast, have been built a long time ago (prior to the shale revolution) and are setup to process foreign grades that are imported from non-domestic producers. If we magically built pipelines that could reach these facilities, there would be significant CAPEX required to accommodate domestic crude composition. There are also many downstream by-product streams that are turned into secondary productions which would also be threatened if crude composition changed. These systems are designed to take a stable crude source / composition and roll over their engineered lifespan and there is no financial incentive for domestic producers to sink CAPEX to revamp their rusted old refineries.

And who's going to finance and build a new refinery in the US these days with the renewables / ESG push?!

Regardless of political stance or country of origin, reading sources from multiple perspectives can help to avoid a simpleton's fallacy...