Secretary of the Interior Babbitt wants to close more hydroelectric dams, reducing electricity production from those renewable sources. Vice President Gore, pandering to those same special interests, says he will remove even more federal lands from exploration and production of domestic energy. These same special interests lobby for higher taxes on energy and less production at home. To those who advocate higher taxes on energy and less production at home, consumers have sent a message loudly and clearly that they do not want higher cost energy. Truckers protest higher diesel fuel prices by ringing State Houses with their trucks.
Motorists protest higher gasoline prices.
I doubt it. Those special interests love high-energy costs and lobby in Washington to kill any further exploration and production of energy at home. Increasing America's domestic exploration and production of energy means American technology employing American labor producing more American energy for America. America has succeeded in killing off the domestic nuclear power industry. America, at least today, refuses to increase domestic exploration and production of more oil and natural gas.