The politicians you elect are the reason for your high gas prices.

If you want to know why it is costing you $4 a gallon for gas the person responsible can usually be found in your own mirror. It is the people that you elect to office that has allowed us to become hostages to OPEC and their extortion. We have plenty of energy resources right here in North America that could be developed at about $30 a barrel and we have enough of it to last for hundreds of years but our government is standing in the way.

A Conservative Energy Agenda - HUMAN EVENTS

North America’s energy resource base is enormous. It includes the world’s largest oil shale deposits, the world’s largest coal deposits, and the world’s largest oil sands reserves. Combined, these resources are sufficient to power North America for centuries, giving us plenty of time to transition to new energy sources as they become affordable. Meanwhile, all of North America would benefit from more indigenous energy production. A coordinated effort between the United States, Canada and Mexico — could help unlock North American energy policy and put us once again in charge of our own destiny. Along the way, it would help with our illegal immigration problem; if Mexico strengthens its economy through energy development, there will be more opportunities for work at home. Currently, that money is going to the far-flung reaches of the world.

We also need to repeal Section 526 which prohibits federal contracting for “nonconventional” sources of petroleum. This section, inserted by Congressman Henry Waxman, stops U.S. federal agencies from contracting to buy the frontier fuels of the future based on how they are made. Investment in frontier fuels will play a critical role in reducing America’s dependence on foreign sources of energy. Advanced fuel technologies, including coal-to-liquids, natural gas-to-liquids, fuel from oil shale, and fuel from Canadian oil sands are specifically targeted by Section 526. This makes no sense.
America cannot run the world’s greatest economy on expensive and imported energy for much longer. It is time to use our own supplies, and America has no shortage. We simply lack the political will to push government aside and put Americans to work producing them. As soon as that happens, our frontier energy sources — which rival those of any other continent in the world — could set America on a path to a stronger, more robust and more secure future. But first, government has got to get out of our way.