Why bash just Californians? Why not bash all Americans because the U.S. Senate won't allow drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge?
That's pretty much how I see it, 'nuff blame to go around.
But y' know, since we are evidently now a nation that waits for trouble when we have seen it coming for several decades and done nothing, like with the borders, drug demand, all sorts of things, well, in such cases perhaps getting a swift kick in our lazy wise-asses with, well, maybe, a skyscraper getting blown down in a major city...no...er...that won't work.....an indigent foreigner invasion...nah...they can sleep in the woods...and in the emergency wards, delivering babies....fatal diseases and frequent murders from funding drug gangs....well...then where will we get our fun from...??!! OK...OK...I've got it, $10 gasoline, so we actually DO something (of course for wimpy, self-gratification reasons, not wisdom or national welfare, like WHEN our foreign sources are closed, it will be too late to drill and crack and pump...) but perhaps again, the resilient American freedom under law system will rescue our worthless asses by the working of simple Capitalism.....the demand causing us to not only drill our own stuff, but perhaps even change our 100 year old gasoline engine technology for something better, rather than struggling to preserve the buggy industry by growing super oats, and 5 legged horses.
Years ago if you told me our space project would mostly yield great pictures and a golf game on the moon, but in the 21st. century we'd still be running our Japanese teardrop cars on stuff even Henry Ford thought was a second choice, I'd have laughed.
Then again, I'd also have laughed about people having bones through their noses, and people debating the sensitivities and motivations of the people who slit our stewardesses throats with razor blades and crashed our planes into our Pentagon and office buildings...so what did I know, after all?!
$10 gas?
We need it.
Its time for Alaska to say screw the feds. Why should they suffer because a bunch dumb asses in California and New York are hung up on some tree hugger fairy tale that ANWR is the garden of Eden? For most of the year, its flies and mosquitoes, and the other part a frozen tundra. If I were the Alaskans, I would pass a state amendment reclaiming ANWR and start pumping the black gold and distributing the revenue to its citizens.
Why the hell should alaska get driven into the 3rd world with the rest of these idiots in the blue states? It has its own resources, plenty of land and one of the last places Jefferson or Washington would consider living in the US these days.