More Drilling Won't Solve Our Oil Woes

The L.A. Times reports "the Bush administration has moved aggressively to open up broad areas of largely unspoiled federal land to oil and gas exploration. The administration has pressed for approval of new drilling permits across the Rocky Mountains and lifted protections on hundreds of thousands of acres with gas and oil reserves in Utah and Colorado. In the process, it has targeted a number of places prized for their scenery, abundant wildlife and clean water, natural assets increasingly valuable to the region's changing economy."

We all know the Bush administration has the worst environmental record of any, but I'm not even going to get into that. The simple facts are the United States has only 3% of the world's oil, and we import 61% of the oil we use from other countries. There's no way we can drill ourselves out of this problem. The simple fact is the world is going to run out of oil someday, and we have to find other energy resources. To continue to ignore this problem or pretend it doesn't exist helps no one, and I can't understand why anyone believes that is an option anymore.