How Can We Achieve Energy Independence?

Drilling won't do it

Rod is not much of an expert if these are his views. There are not enough drilling rigs, places to drill, people to run them, that are worthwhile to come even close to what we use now. If we try to suck it out faster, we get even less. The slower you pump, the more you get. Do we want to leave any to our kids? WSJ/Oil and Gas Journal, CIA sources for real facts. Just where these rightwing think tanks like Hudson get their info I don;t know.
Even if there was, it would take too long as we have only a couple yrs, not ten before Iran, Russia, ect own us. And why do we want to drive up the cost of oil which 30% of what we spend on gas goes directly to oil dictators and terrorist!! Shouldn't we want to bankrupt them instead of giving them trillions of $ over that 10 yrs?
We can easily but not through drilling, but eff instead. There is no vehicle I can't make get twice the mileage with present tech but we may have to force Detroit to do it it seems. I now drive a 2 seat sportscar that gets 400mpg fuel cost equivalent. With it's 100 mile electric range and 80mph top speed and could slide a gasoline generator to get unlimited range at about 150mpg.
GM's EV1 which they crushed would too but way to complicated. Instead use forklift tech, golf cart batteries and composite body/chassis instead. Many thousands of daily driver EV's are on the road but most we had to build ourselves. Google EV Clubs for links and ones near you.
EV commuters and eff gas, NG, biodiesels cars can be done now with little problem as Detroit already builds them overseas except EV's. For semi's, hybrid/NG, composite/alum chassis and aerodynamics for them all does the trick.
If you want to drill for energy, how about waste biomass which is easily converted by the FT process into extremely clean diesel, ect. No food needed but it's stalks, yard and other biowastes, Shell, Syntroleum, Sa all have the units to do this though used to convert stranded NG into diesel now called GTL plants. They'll build them for OPEC but not for US alt Energy use! Sasol uses it from coal.
Wind, solar generators and PV along with tidal, river generators can supply what we need in future EV , home energy. There are few places that a well designed home at little or no more cost that homes built now, need no external energy, in fact could charge the EV's too. Many groups, info online on all these solutions.
All of this is current to very old tech. In 1911 there were EV's that went 100 miles and some still today run on some of their original Edison batteries, NiFe. Windpower for homes, small business was perfected mostly by 1930.
So let's take that $700B we spend for overseas oil and build the eff cars, semi's, high speed/commuter trains, refit homes, business for eff and RE power production instead of making oil dictators rich and paying terrorist to kill us This is why Rod is no expert or at least not one I'd listen to..

Jerryd