How that will get us more oil or lower the price of gasoline is a problem that can be left for economists to puzzle over. A politician's problem is how to get more votes-- and one of the most effective ways of doing that is to be a hero who will save us from the villains.
Just once, I would love to see ONE of those oil executives who is called to grovel before know-nothings and should-know-betters in Congress take one for the team, and lash back at the pols with ferocity about their willing ignorance and/or craven deception about the realities of the industry, and their hypocrisy in never turning down a pay raise for themselves in a bad economy.
If it ever happens, which is doubtful, I hope I’m tuned in watching. I want to see that ONE who’s got the guts to do it and the look on the pols face it’s addressed to.
Whatever they say or do would be airbrushed out of existence by Big Media, just like the Enemies of the People were airbrushed away in the USSR, just like they erased Clinton’s rape of Juanita Broaddrick.