It seems like they keep finding more oil every place they look- and the supplies we are using don't seem to be drying-up, some scientists seem to think they are replenishing themselves (i.e. oil is NOT really old dinosaurs)
We can...all we have to do is develop the vast resources we have in the ANWR, off our coasts (whcih the Chinese are already drilling outside our territorial waters), the oil shales, the vast fileds in the Dakotahs, etc.
All of this has already proven to be a lot more than all of the Arab countries combined. More than enough for us not only to be energy independent and provide the time needed to truly develop future sources, but would allow us to be the major exporter of oil and gas in the world.
We just need the will. The will of the people to put in office leaders with the will to do it.
I pray to God in Heaven we will here in 2012.
I heard a few years ago that some of the wells in the Gulf that were supposedly dried up actually filled back up. I’m guessing it was due to pressure and natural fracking.