America has plenty of oil but Congress and environmentalists are hindering development.

Some of what is in this article is what I have been implying on this Blog for months. We do have the ability to solve our energy problems and we can do it without T. Boone Picken’s self serving windmill scheme.

Actually our energy problem can be solved through free enterprise if only Congress, the environmentalists and the courts stopped hindering our oil development. If the hindrances were removed for national security reasons we could develop in short order all the $2 a gallon gas we need and we would have it for hundreds of years to come (adjusted for inflation).

Patrick Briley — Empowering Americans for Energy Independence

Oil and investment mogul and tycoon T. Boone Pickens has been telling Americans that they “have no control over the price of gasoline and diesel” and “cannot drill their way out of an oil crisis.” While Pickens is correct to point out that the US has become too dependent on foreign oil, his statements are misleading and very incorrect.

America does have the ability to produce enough oil from drilling and from coal, tar sands and shale to not only control, lower and stabilize gasoline, diesel and jet fuel prices but to make the US independent of ALL foreign energy sources for over a hundred years even before the US would need to turn to significant numbers of nuclear fission and/or fusion electricity generating power plants.