Problems can have short term approaches which could mitigate the problem, and longer term (years or decades) solutions. The head of Oxy Pete said they couldn't produce more right now because of labor and material shortages. There are a lot of open leases. And production is recovering. This is the shorter term approach.
I think Biden put his foot in it pandering to the Greens and then issued some EOs which I THINK had relatively little to do with production but sounded good (pandering). Thus, he created the image he dampened production, because he meant to create that image. Maybe all that did have some slight impact. I suspect it was nearly all optics, nor reality, and other factors are at play here.
I see folks on FB saying we should open the KXL pipeline to use AMERICAN oil, which says something about where some folks are these days.
I do think it's absurd to ask SA et al. to produce more while not at least reversing the optics of what was done internally, but he can't say that.
Now, longer term, EVs will reduce how much oil we need, but it really is long term. I'm sure oil companies are looking at that trend and thinking about what they want to be in 2040.