Environmentalists refuse to accept fact.
Current forecasts project that we will be producing just over 5 million of the 25 million barrels of oil we will be consuming daily by the year 2020. Those are tankers that don't need to meet more stringent American safety standards. They won t need to have double hulls. Reacting to several small environmental protests, Murkowski agreed the nation should work to conserve energy and find alternative energy sources. As important as these programs are, they cannot meaningfully address the high prices consumers are facing at the pump today, or the national security implications of our increasing dependence on foreign oil in the decades ahead.