If we launch a real energy program the price of a barrel of oil would drop like a rock
Close the Department of Energy
Close the EPA
Stop freezing new exploration in the Gulf on technicalities.
Fed Gov get the heck out of the way.
Then watch what happens.
After it does, we need to hunt down the b_tards who did this to us. Wherever they are. Fed Gov, State Gov, News Media, Non Profit (Traitors) and put them on trial for their treachery.
The biggest factor in the rise of gasoline prices has been the decline of the U.S. dollar and its purchasing power. That's why gold and other commodities have also risen dramatically in recent years.
If the U.S. were to drill more oil, we'd end up exporting more and more of it because it's simply less affordable to us with a weakened U.S. dollar. That's why the whole Keystone XL pipeline is really not being discussed correctly. Nobody likes to mention it, but the primary purpose of that pipeline is to transport oil from Canada and the northern Great Plains to the Gulf Coast ... for export.
We need a President who believes in such a thing, not one - Democrat or Republican - so in the tank to islamists.