...and many other issues, from the Senate. In particular from the Senate Majority Leader. Marlo Lewis gives it a righteous fisking. Unfortunately, there's a lot of stupidity and cluelessness to fisk, so it's a long read.

America, and the rest of the industrialized world, is "addicted" to oil in the same way the human body is "addicted" to oxygen. Someone really needs to break us of that addiction as well, huh?

I don't understand why people believe in zero-sum games when it comes to wealth, and desire to pull down their rich neighbors, but can't bring themselves to believe in conservation of energy.
Or quantification of energy. Just because you can power your lights, and perhaps your coffee maker with solar panels on your roof, that doesn't mean you can scale it to power your car, or a steel mill, or a solar panel factory, for that matter.

Somehow, something needs to supply the terrawatts (terawatts) of energy to replace gasoline. Talking about it as an addiction doesn't help. Refusing to mine our own oil deposits in the Gulf doesn't help. Refusing to build refineries doesn't help. It's all part of this fantasy that people, when forced into it, will magically get along without enough energy to run an industrial society.

You want to get rid of oil? 1. Invent a decent battery or fuel cell. 2. Fire up the nukes - the only thing powerful and scalable enough to run those fuel cells and batteries.