Americans have been using less gas; a good start
Oil prices closing in on $150 a barrel. Gasoline prices marching toward $5 a gallon.
And what does President Bush suggest? Drilling for more oil. And the usual chorus of voices rises in unison to say, "Amen.
"Drill offshore, they say.
Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, they say.
No, they are told with good reason, but they refuse to listen because those who argue the loudest for opening up areas in which to drill are trying to solve the wrong problem.
Yes, the high cost of gasoline hurts Americans financially and the high cost of oil increases the price of anything that requires a petroleum product to produce. But the real problem here is oil dependence — not merely foreign oil, but domestic oil, too.
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