The worst offenders are the Congresscritters and the elite including but not limited to the media. When all these mush brains are driving fuel efficient vehicles I may take some notice of the rantings.
This may come as a shock, but we can dig for fuel. It is there. It won't decimate the landscape, this isn't 1930 when they dug up the west and beautified it with crickets. The politicians and the greens who won't let this happen, including my own Jeb Bush, are not thinking ahead. We must become energy sufficient, and we can.
At least we can reduce our dependency to managable proportions, buy from nations other than the Arabs, and save ourselves from the threat of blackmail in the form of shortages and super high prices. This should have been done after Carter left office. Does anybody remember the oil mess during his administration?
Re the Congresscritters and the elite saying "do as I say," in the summer of 2000, I did a solo freep of candidate Al Gore in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. He was appearing at a $1000 per plate luncheon at a posh hotel. I waited and waited. Finally, I knew he was coming. How? About 15 full-size, gas-guzzling SUVs (I believe they were Chevy Suburbans) and an equal number of motorcycles roared into view and pulled up to the hotel's side entrance. Albert the Environmentalist mincingly stepped from one of them and I wondered how he would get around once he made good on his vow to eliminate the internal combustion engine.