MAYBE IT JUST WASN'T TIME YET

The rocketing price of oil/gasoline has produced a collective snarl in America that laments "why - oh why! didn't we start becoming energy self-sufficient 20 or 30 years ago"?

What are my own feelings on the subject?

1. SHADDUP, YOU WHINERS WHO WEAR $200 TENNIS SHOES (and stuff like that)!
2. It's shameful that our concern over national security is dependent on a pinched pocketbook.
3. Though we're in a pickle now, we can get out of it fairly quickly if we approach the problem sensibly and mobilize ALL options as a nationwide mission.
4. The environmental extremists do serve a purpose. Without them, advanced technology may not have been developed for energy extraction that wouldn't devastate the environment.

That being said it is now time. We have the technology to mitigate effects of energy exploration and recovery on the environment to an acceptable degree and to maximize the efficient use of the fossil fuels that we collect.

However, without a comprehensive approach to exploiting ALL sources of energy and not just oil, we're bound to spend the next couple of decades in the political "do we/do we not" swamp on Capitol Hill. America needs to adopt the mentality of a nation at war. Like WW2. Because. We. Are. At. War. (Like it or not.)

And we get our energy from all our frenemies.