A hallmark of the human experience is that the majority of us don't do anything until we HAVE to. Whether it's taking out the garbage, seeing the doctor or making final arrangements we put it off for as long as possible.
Politicos will pay attention when it's too late to do anything other than take herculean measures. We've known for 40 years how dependent we are on our enemies for the very lifeblood of our economy.
For some reason we just don't seem to be able to handle a situation when it could done with relatively simple measures. In the end we solve the problem with efforts that are a thousand times worse than those that would have worked early on.
When it's all said and done, we have no one to blame for the coming crisis but ourselves. We are the ones who demand more and more energy and at the same time let a minority among us stymie any attempt to find other resources. But another foible of the human condition is that the more we become aware of our problems being of our own doing the harder we fight to blame them on someone else.
It's only a matter of time before our enemy is no longer as dependent on the income from our addiction as we are on the addiction and then all bets are off.
For those same forty years our energy production has been crippled by our catering to those enemies and especially to their allies here in America, the environmentalists and socialists who yearn just as much for the defeat and destruction of America as the Saracens do.