While I accept that we need to be actively looking to replace oil as a fuel resource over the next 20 years, to continue to get the vast majority of our oil from the Middle East makes no sense at all.
With China and India placing ever increasing demands on the worlds oil supply as they grow as industrial Countries, you don't need to be a mathematician to see what will happen to the price of oil over the next 20 years.
The irony is that here in the US, we have several options which would solve our oil problem until an alternate fuel source is decided upon.
One solution would be drilling off the coast of Florida. Most experts agree that there is enough oil there to sustain our needs for about 30 years. The same is true for Anwar. By one federal estimate, the refuge holds more than 4 billion barrels of oil ready for the taking. The USA consumes roughly 20 million barrels of oil a day.
The argument against drilling in Anwar has been the disruption to wildlife. Yet we're talking about drilling in an area the size of a large city, when the Anwar region is the size of three States.
I think Americans have to ease up about things like not wanting to see oil rigs off the Florida coast as an excuse for not drilling there. If we want to continue to drive what we want when we want then there is a price to pay for that luxury.
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