There is ZERO excuse for not drilling our own oil and doing everything possible to increase the supply and refinement.
While the oil execs can claim free market all they want, they should also not obstruct new drilling and use the paid for pols to stop new companies from entering the fray.
Drilling at home will take much too long to solve the issues we have today. The quickest way to control and reduce prices is to simply demand less oil. Instead of drilling and waiting eight or nine years to get a drop of it, we'd be better off spending that time developing alternative fuels to completeley remove us from M.E. dependence, and in eight or nine years, be off the oil "schneid".