” It better not be at the cost of one single Spotted Owl or Beluga Whale! /s”
You are spot[ted owl] on! If the libs in Congress really believed our national security were in danger due to "overdependence" on foreign oil, then we would be drilling ANWR and the Outer Continental Shelf, exploiting fenced-off domestic natural gas fields and developing nuclear energy.
Of course, "peak oil" is more junk science that not even libs appear to take seriously.
I think some of them think if they starve the US of oil, they can hasten the day when oil becomes so expensive that we will be forced to turn to environmentally friendly sources. Of course, what they haven't figured on is that two sources would be much cheaper than solar, wind, biofuels or even fuel cells - coal and nuclear! LOL!