Why can't the candidates--and even the already elected office holders--talk about the real issue. It is not energy. The US has plenty of energy and energy sources. The problem is oil used for transporting people and goods from one place to another in the form of gasoline and diesel fuel to power internal combustion engines.
Conservation such as is already being exercised by everybody individually and by businesses because of the latest rise in the price of oil is the first best step to limiting demand.
The simplest solution is to substitute alternative renewable fuels to operate these engines and there will be no need to import any oil no matter how much is drilled on U.S territories.
Can that be done? Of course. Google Jimmy Carter's televised speech of July 15, 1979.
Brazil took the hint and today is totally independent of imported oil and driving flex fuel vehicles made in the USA!









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