[M. Dodge Thomas]

That chart tells a good part of the story:

http://energy.senate.gov/legislation/energybill/charts/chart8.pdf

domestic production in places like ANWR is controversial (polling consistently indicates that only around 35% of voters have a strong preference for doing so) and even best-case domestic production is pretty much a side-show in the big picture - it's just not worth spending the political capital.

[Sunnyflorida]

65% of those polled are dopes. You have to look at the marginal impact on prices. Plus that slide is devoid of critical info. You cannot show a usage slide with volume and time as the only two dimentions, you also have to calculate PRICE. At every price point that chart changes and the change is not linear

There is a supply denand CURVE, not a supply denand LINE.

Please people read thomas sowell. .

[brainstem223]

Leadership does not consist of putting your finger in the wind clintonesquely and waiting for a majority of public opinion: It is a well known fact that 75% of the population are dimwitted foolish mall-zombie slug-a-butts who cannot reason their way out of a wallmart sack.

I guess they are getting the inaction in drilling for more oil on USA land that they deserve, unfortunately for the rest of us~~!

[brainstem223]

Or more darkly, is their a cabal with big oil and the leaders of this once great nation to continue to restrict drilling to keep the supply down and the prices up so big oil can squeeze more $'s profit out of the same barrel of oil? Or why sell the same barrel for $30 if you can get $70 for it in a rigged game?