No, I don’t assume the government will stay out of the way; in fact, I’m frightened they’ll screw it up. However, right now while they just argue about gas prices and drilling an don’t actually do anything, it’s ideal.
The government does need to lift many of it’s restrictions, especially on nuclear power. It can lift the restrictions on drilling too, but we need to focus way beyond that. You mention an “environmental hoax”, by which I’m assuming you mean global warming/cooling/climate change/whatever they’re calling it today. That’s not my concern. My concern is that oil is a fossil fuel that we’re eventually going to run out of, and countries like China and India are rapidly using more and more. This is why prices are headed sky high and why drilling more at home will barely be a drop in the bucket.
We need to change the way we’re living. I don’t have faith in government to figure out how and I certainly don’t want them to force us. However, we’re headed for economic catastrophe if we don’t accept that cheap energy is a thing of the past and we need to adjust.
If the federal government would reverse some of the uneducted fear-based restrictions that the Carter administration imposed on us, nuclear power (fission) would provide cheap electricity for the next 1000 years. Once fusion becomes viable, then electricity becomes cheap indefinitely.
Once we have a sufficient supply of cheap electricity, then internal combustion engines can be supplied with fuel other than oil-based octane.
Accepting expensive energy is letting the socialist-greens know that they win and that they can restrict our freedoms as they please. Do not give in.