Good list.
We can’t have all that stuff.
What we can have is energy dependence on the middle east, a hive of primitive people who hate us and want to destroy us.
People say, well, even if we start drilling now it will be ... years before we ....
If we’d started 5 years ago we’d be energy independent now.
But if we start when Gingrich is inaugerated, it will immediately frighten the Saudi’s, etal and the price will plummet.
At least, that’s my guess.
They’re getting oil now out of Bakken in North Dakota and Montana.
The last I heard was that TransCanada wants to build the pipeline from there down to the Gulf, and finish the linkup to Canada later...bypassing Obama.