Crystal clear. The question is why? If oil is such a dirty business and we can't drill here for fear of creating a mess, does that mean it's okay to make a mess in Liberia or Saudi. Out of sight, out of mind? Or, is it because the congresscritters are taking huge bribes from producers of off-shore oil?
Because they are all transnationalists, for reasons of their own.
The Democrats know that socialism will only prevail if the US is part of a larger entity, or is flooded with a ready-made proletariat made up of illiterate peasants, or both.
Any Republican who is rich enough to make it to Congress knows there's big money in offshore factories and high-level involvement with foreign despots. The patriotic few believe that a world government would inevitably be run by America, and that their own power and glory would multiply as a result. Some of them actually view globalization as a way to save and/or Christianize their little brown brothers.
The American sovereignty caucus in the Congress is tiny and unimportant.
We have been dismally unsuccessful in placing this issue in front of the American people.