Besides commercial benefits to the oil companies, equity oil abroad also provides national energy security.

The price hike comes as crude oil costs continue to climb on energy security woes involving Iran and Nigeria. In fact, crude oil was trading above $65 per barrel this week - a level not seen since the hurricanes of 2005.

Energy security is top of the agenda for oil-importing nations, efforts are made to diversify the source of oil supplies and build strategic petroleum reserves.

The debate here needs to be about moving away from oil as a means of looking at energy security. There are a lot of new technologies that can be looked at for this.

On energy security, oil, I believe the two sides will discuss beneficial cooperation.

Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.