[DaveA37]

And with odumbo, his ilk administration and the enviro’s, that oil will sit right there till hell freezes over if they have their way. Time to unelect all the demodummies and start drilling, building refineries and marketing our oil to the world. There would be NO NEED for foreign oil, period!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Yes, but remember that part of the theory behind foreign oil is to use theirs up first and preserve ours. Sucking the Permian Basin dry now might not be in our long-term national security interests. But sucking Saudi Arabia dry immediately is in everyone's best interest.

And as far as gasoline prices are concerned, building new refineries will help a lot more in the short-to-medium term than extracting more domestic crude.