Precisely!
Over a year ago, when prices started ratcheting up, I wrote all my "critters" in DC & Atlanta, and told them, "We need to drill like crazy in Alaska, offshore, and on the continent, we need to take the chains off nuclear power production, we need to exploit our vast coal reserves, we need to encourage gasahol and conservation... etc., etc.
It is not a scientific, technical, or engineering problem- it's a political problem.
DITTO, on that. We are 50 states, and Alaska must contribute also. And from what I have read, most Alaskans want oil drilling also to help their state economy.