You are a liar. You definitely assumed what type of vehicle they drive by telling them to get a smaller one. Thus you were assuming they drive big ones, and drive them because they want to not because they have to. Furthermore, your stupid, and it is stupid there is no other word for it, statement that all we will get if we drill is a few million barrels of oil just does not even deserve a reply.
We have billions of barrels in the ground that we are not allowed to get because of nonsensical enviro laws. On top of that you must add the refineries that we haven't built, which is one of our main problems, over the last 30 years.
There is no "long term" solution, at least not at this point in time. Drilling for new oil and building new refineries is the answer that will take care of the immediate need, and then it will take years to see the effect of this, and research can be ongoing to find your mythical long term solution. There is none available now.
If you people who believe that we are almost out of oil are so sure of this, then just lie back and wait, it will happen soon enough, according to you, and then you can push your "long term" solutions.
Meanwhile I will relegate you to the troll pile where you belong.
Ad hominem attacks are the sign of a very immature or uneducated mind.
You wrote: “We have billions of barrels in the ground that we are not allowed to get because of nonsensical enviro laws”
How many billions of barrels does the US have in the ground? I actually answered that question in a previous post. If the US uses 21 million bpd multiply this by 365 and then explain to me how much oil we have left again. My FRiend, your attacks are without ground and your math skills show that often people call others what they are themselves. You think like a liberal. Perhaps you would be happier at the DU?