From the Wall Street Journal via Instapundit:
Brazil has gone from importing 77% of its oil from foreign sources in 1980 to importing no oil by 2009. A great success story in conservation and alternative energy? Not really. Total Brazilian oil consumption still more than doubled. The biggest factor is that Brazil increased its domestic oil production over the last two decades by 876% (not a typo). Most of that production has come from offshore exploration.
And that, my friends, is how its done. When you’re short on something you need, as a nation, you go about seeing if there is any way you can increase the amount of it in your country. The United States, of course, is a much larger oil consumer than Brazil and so the chances of us becoming entirely oil-independent are small – but we can massively reduce the amount of oil we import. All we need to is vigorously exploit the resources we currently have as well as aggressively explore for more such resources within our borders and off our coasts.
It will take time, but all the time we’re spending will be used employing American workers and increasing national wealth – and if you want to get all “alternative energy” about it, you can make it so that 10% of all government revenues from domestic oil production are ear marked for alternative energy research and and construction. Vastly increase our oil supplies, vastly decrease the amount of money we send overseas, vastly increase American employment, vastly increase American wealth and pay for the replacements for oil. This is an all-around winning idea. There’s only one trouble with it – liberals hate oil, especially domestic oil, and simply won’t agree to do it…they’d really prefer we suffering increased poverty and weakness as long as it results in less American oil production.
Yes, they are that stupid and blinded by ideology. Get used to it – and get cracking on doing whatever you can to ensure their defeat in 2012.
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