[BobP]

I've said this since the 70's. Remember the odd-even gas rationing during the '73 Arab oil embargo?

Pump our own energy and cut OPEC completely out of the American market. Americans can still bet their money on all the other commodities but not oil and natural gas. Consider the country and the economy first. Who knows how it might have changed our foreign policy over the last 35 years.

[thackney]

Americans can still bet their money on all the other commodities but not oil and natural gas.

Would you explain more of what you mean?