[M. Dodge Thomas]

First on the list should be legislation to make it easier to start drilling in our own country, the country with more oil than all the Middle East combined."

I hate to say it, but this sort of determined ignorance (if you knew anything about energy policy, you would know your statement is just flat out absurdly wrong) is perhaps the biggest reason we are in the mess we are:

I shudder for the future of a country where voters are making decisions based on this sort of "knowledge".

[angkor]

>>>>>I hate to say it, but this sort of determined ignorance

There’s a lot of that here today. Flat out monumental stupidity.