Inflation here? gas/grocery prices just continue to climb

There is one other element to the oil price issue and domestically sourced oil. In 2017 we made it legal to export domestically produced oil. At the time, no one cared because oil was cheap and it "helped" oil companies. Now that the price of oil is high, we are exporting over 1 million barrels of oil a day to Asia(mostly China). Sweet crude that is easier and therefore cheaper to refine.