Wake up and smell the crude

They had several stories on gasoline on NPR this a.m. - in one of them a woman is saying "energy costs need to come way down." I was a little disturbed to hear this - is there anyone left who really thinks prices will ever go down significantly? People better wake up and smell the coffee, or the crude. Here's a wake up call (the first few paragraphs and a link to the rest):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/opinion/22friedman.html

June 22, 2008
NY Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Mr. Bush, Lead or Leave
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Two years ago, President Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. Now we have the new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.”

Actually, it’s more sophisticated than that: Get Saudi Arabia, our chief oil pusher, to up our dosage for a little while and bring down the oil price just enough so the renewable energy alternatives can’t totally take off. Then try to strong arm Congress into lifting the ban on drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

It’s as if our addict-in-chief is saying to us: “C’mon guys, you know you want a little more of the good stuff. One more hit, baby. Just one more toke on the ole oil pipe. I promise, next year, we’ll all go straight. I’ll even put a wind turbine on my presidential library. But for now, give me one more pop from that drill, please, baby. Just one more transfusion of that sweet offshore crude.”

It is hard for me to find the words to express what a massive, fraudulent, pathetic excuse for an energy policy this is.