Jim Vaughn, Miramar Beach in today’s Daily News letters: “If we don’t develop our own resources, we will always be dependent on foreign oil.” Which is why we need to start drilling in the Gulf.
But what’s to stop us from just using more oil than we do now? Or to stop China from buying up our oil by paying more for it? It’s not like it goes into a private only-for-America oil reserve.
I think cartoonist Dan Perkins had the best suggestion: If we’re going to open the Gulf (or any equivalent area) to drilling, we should pass a law setting an exact maximum to the amount of oil we import, then reducing that amount based on how much we take out of the Gulf. If we need more than that down the road, we make it up by conservation or alternative sources.
Otherwise, no amount of drilling is going to liberate us from outside sources.

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