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!
Your entire post sounds like something taken from the Birchite "NEW AMERICAN."
I may be wrong...but I have heard that most,if not all, of the oil from Alaska now goes overseas.
redrock