America cannot run or progress without oil products and shutting down offshore and other drilling simply hands our enemies and competitors a bonanza. High priced gas will eliminate jobs and thereby taxes coming into the all powerful federal gov’t. There is no alternative for oil for decades – windmills will not work on vehicles.
America has plenty of oil, but the fed gov’t refuses to lease 97% of the land for drilling.
Are the left and environmentalists so extreme to want out competitors’ demand to increase exponentially?