One thing I worry about in the aftermath of the ongoing BP oil spill (the top-kill method of trying to stop the leak apparently failed) is how restricted we in America could wind up being insofar as prospecting for our own oil and other fossil fuels is concerned. More than half of our oil is already imported, much of it from countries that are decidedly unfriendly to America – and this is, I am convinced, a major vulnerability that we have. After all, the “green” technologies that are widely promoted are, from what I have seen, not exactly economically viable.
