Open up oil exploration would be a good thing. Your “mandate” proposals not so much. Open it and let the free market and private business operate.
I agree with a Laizzez Faire attitude, but the problem is that I don't trust BIG OIL (read the OPEC affiliated companies) to do the right thing which is to bring cheap gas to the nation and the economy over corporate profits in doing what's right over their bottom line. I hold oil stocks, too. There is being a stockholder and there's being a patriotic American. See, those companies don't consider themselves to be American entities. They think of themselves as global citizens. They are amongst the biggest contributors to globalization movements like the Council on Foreign Relations. Under normal circumstances, the free market would work well, indeed. I'm not so sure it would here because of the enormous market manipulation that these companies can exert. Business is business, after all....