Actually it's far worse than that. OPEC has decided to cut production by a half million barrels(they want the price to be $60. per barrel) which the saudis can do by themselves if they choose.(remember the saudis the ones who were actually killed in 911)
One thing they did choose some time ago(our great allies the Saudis again) was to fund sunni terrorists in Iraq. They even went so far as to put boxes(zagat) in local Saudi grocery stores fill them with cash(millions) and then threaten drivers with loss of life or their relatives to drive the cash into Iraq and give to war lords.
It gets better.
Some of the cash was traced back to the purchase of shoulder rockets supplied by our buddies the russians,(remember that jet that went down mysteriously in Iraq).
Anyway we need to start drilling,anywhere,anytime, crank up the nukes, dig for coal, shale oil, biodiesel,wind-mills or anything we need to do and soon or be at the mercy of the terror types(oh excuse me our allies) forever.
Somehow I'm on the Wilderness Society mailing list and as soon as Wolverine announced how large their find is Wilderness started an email campaign to stop any drilling in Utah, Wyoming and parts of Colorado.
I get so frustrated that we are dependent on foreign oil because of the very people who turn around and complain that we are dependent on foreign oil...these greenies want us to go back to the dark ages.