Recently billions upon billions of gallons of oil were found in North Dakota. It was touted as "easily recoverable".
America is sitting on immense amounts of untapped oil reserves from the Dakotas, to Alaska to the deep gulf coast.
If this country actually wanted to, it could pump more than enough oil to sustain itself.
Alaska, ANWR specifically, has been a hot topic recently. What has been repeated over and over is that it would take at least 10 years to recover the oil.
If you look back 30 years ago, after the last energy crisis, the talking point was that it would take at least 10 years to recover the oil.
The same arguement was made 10 years after that. No action was taken, had someone done something, we would be utilizing that oil now.
Then there is the insane amount of oil available in domestic and Canadian oil shale.
There is too much red tape and the bullshit argument that "it will cost too much" to tap into these resources.
Then again, mabey we should just wait until we REALLY need it, then go get it.