While I agree with your overall sentiment, I think that oil/nat gas production is quite environmentally friendly. The amount of energy that can be pulled out of a hole in the ground, that maybe covers an acre or two of activity is tremendous compared to how many trees one has to cut down for solar or wind energy.
Agree.
That's what is currently killing the all-electric car. The rapidity of BTU energy transfer from gas pump to gas tank is a hard mark to beat. Consequently, the hybrid car is the more logical approach to cutting down on (and, hopefully, someday eliminating) our dependence on foreign oil. The question is how much corn do we have to plant to make it a completely renewable resource? ;-)
Similarily, the oil and gas drilling industry has - in the face of a heck of a lot of pressure, it must be admitted - finally developed much more environmentally sound and less environmentally demanding production technologies. This new technology is what makes the case for drilling in the environmentally-sensitive ANWR plausible. If we were using the production methods of the 1940s-60s, it would be impossible to sell.