The question is rhetorical. Because of Washington's anti-energy industry bias, there was no reaction to the suffering our political folly caused. It is a question each one of us should be asking ourselves. While many of us don't know or probably even care where our Nation's energy supply comes from, we do know we want it to be there for us. Although the costs at the gas pump and fuel oil prices may seem low, the price each and every one of us will ultimately pay for our reliance on foreign oil is quite high.
Energy affects almost every aspect of our daily life.
It affects our environment, our life-style, our national security and our economy. We are a fossil-fuel based society and, of all the energy sources available to us, oil and natural gas still provide the bulk of our energy. Despite what environmental extremists would lead us to believe, we are not running out of fossil fuels. We have hundreds of years of supplies-and there's plenty more to be discovered. But, like a nation of lemmings, we are cutting off access to those supplies.