Jeeze, your mantra sounds like a single issue democrat talking about electric cars. I ask them how they would plug in their Chevy Volt to charge up the batteries if they live on the 97th floor of an apartment building? Hmmmm? Easy, buy a long extension cord.
First, in itself, drilling for oil anywhere is not a total solution. Are 300,000,000 American cars and trucks supposed to stop by an oil field, uncoil a garden hose, and fill up their cars and trucks with crude?
Concurrent with drilling, there are pesky infrastructures (roads and pipelines) required to be built to transport crude from the wells to new refineries. Similar infrastructure is required to get refined product to distribution points for delivery to gas stations.
Then there is coal. Few mention coal because there is a perception that it is dirty, and it's also not as glamorous or popular an energy source as oil.
Nukes. Since the DOE is essentially worthless, they could do a one week energy study to determine, by state, nuclear kilowatt production to kilowatt consumption, and establish a benchmark for the states. If states failed to provide nuclear energy to its residents, they would lose a proportionate amount of Federal spending in that state. This puts the pressure on the States to be accountable for its electrical energy instead of outsourcing from neighboring states.
People need to look at energy from a total solution perspective, and think through the issues and solution resolutions instead of yelling and ranting DRILL, DRILL, DRILL !!!!