For years the political left has fought nearly any efforts to drill in new fields in America, at least where there was any controversy at all.
The fact is, there is lots of oil in America if the government will allow the drilling. Likewise, we need clear federal encouragement of new refineries.
Conservatives and liberals alike should support conservation and new energy sources, and they should do so vigorously, from nuclear to passive (architectural) and active solar. They should support new transportation technologies (see blog below) and plug-in hybrid autos. But we also need to do whatever we can to substitute our own oil for imported oil.
Trying to blame oil company executives for the rising world-wide oil prices insults the intelligence of the voters. Unreasonable liberal government has held up U.S. oil production for twenty years or more.
