[Dataman]

Besides, the President knew that Arab Muslims had us over a barrel (literally). If we wanted to keep fueling our SUVs, it was best not to insult the man’s religion, know what I mean?

Let's debunk the myth that we need the oil for SUVs:

Less than half of a barrel of oil is converted to gas.
Government vehicles and farm equipment burn the vast majority of fuel. Hybrid vehicles will never catch on so long as the moratorium on nuke plants prevents the generation of electricity to supply them.

40 cents a gallon is direct tax
And there are indirect taxes through oxygenation requirements, regulations prohibiting the building of refineries, the banning of station wagons, etc. drive the price higher and higher. This is by design since lefties assume higher prices will discourage driving.

Oil companies are doubling their profits in the face of rising pricesThey are deliberately profiting from our pain. Remember the "Windfall Profits Act in the 70's? Big oil gave us the shaft then as well.

America needs cheap energy to remain great (which explains why the left is against cheap energy). We can:

Pressure the Arabs to get the price down,
Regulate oil companies,
Tap domestic sources,
Build more nuke plants,
Develop fuel cells.

Getting all the SUVs off the road would not solve the energy problem, not reduce our imports, not reduce pollution, or not slow world (read Chinese) demand.

[abigail2]

THanks for those links dataman....:)