To an extent, yes.
"Wake up. Drilling won’t do anything."
Bullshit. I'm from South Louisiana, and I'm VERY familiar with the oil business. I know just what a TINY fraction of the Gulf of Mexico in which drilling is allowed (about half of the available coastline). And ALL of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are off limits as well. There are HUGE amounts of oil off the California coast-so much that it oozes out of the seabed naturally--all off limits. There's plenty of oil---but the eco-nutcases like you have prevented drilling for it and refining it. This situation is TOTALLY artificial and caused DIRECTLY by government INTERFERENCE with the "free market".
I’m not an eco-nutcase. I haven’t said a word on this thread to suggest that, either. I don’t think it’s economically feasible in the long-term to reamin dependent on a fossil fuel. There’s a finite supply and an ever-growing demand. Maybe it will be fine for the rest of our lifetime, but I’m trying to think further ahead than that.