Actually, red, it's a rather dumb article. This simplistic admonition, with nothing behind it, could be uttered by a high school sophomore.
If it were possible, and cost effective, to supply our energy needs entirely from within the United States, we would have done so by now.
Besides, let's use up their oil, first.
Mr. Sinkspur, you have it in a nutshell.
The article is empty and puerile; it might deserve a Tenth Grade "C" based on minimal mis-spellings.
I'd add a couple observations to your remark that if it were possible supply our energy sources from domestic sources in a cost-effective way, we would have done so.
I think we would have done so even if it weren't particularly cost-effective.
The reason we haven't is that the costs would not be marginally higher, they would be totally utterly prohibitive, to the point that the subsidies needed to keep the effort alive would quickly banckrupt us. Further, the law enforcement efforts needed to keep out black- market oil would be politically unsustainable.
We would create a situation where we would utterly lack the resources to fight these militant Islamofacists on their ground, but we would soon be unable to mount a fight on our own territory.
If it does...can that change come about thru private financial enterprise or does the United States Government need to be the one to invest in bringing about that change???
redrock
Sorry, sink, your response is also sophomoric and simplistic. It also presupposes there are no entities working either against the best interests or at cross purposes to the best interests of our nation. Multinational corporations, do not consider themselves as US citizens or even beholden to US interests. Their bottom line is profit. Period. Same is true for the private banking entities present on US soil. Then there are the globalist factions which have world government as their primary objectives. To accomplish this goal, and it is frighteningly close, these groups of elitists must "bring down" this great nation to her very knees. Energy dependence is one of these primary means.
And before you protest my "tinfoil hat" there are some things that are glaringly obvious to even those with obtuse vision of world events. Say that we drilled ANWAR like a ... ahem....$10 hooker. Say it proved to be a find far beyond our wildest dreams of production. I think that most of that oil would be sold overseas at a considerable profit rather than being used to bring down the price of fuel here at home. The reason it's not being heavily lobbied by the oil companies is that they fear a President like GW might use his powers of national security to "nationalize" their industry!