They are going the right way - the use of closed military bases may not make sense, but the premise that Congress is voting on ridiculous legislation should be highlighted and screamed on the highest mountain. They should be revoking legislation already passed that has crippled and hampered our energy independence.
A new, ultramodern refinery should be coming on board by 2010 in the Dakotas. Ironically, it is privately funded and was conceived as an operation that would refine Canadian oil brought in by pipeline. I believe it could also be expanded to include oil derived from the Bakken shale region of eastern Montana - Western Dakotas. We know how to build refineries, but investors just simply refuse to play the enviromarxist game as played by East Coast elitists and West Coast mamma’s boys, All Americans suffer as a consequence.