supply and demand and the leverage of a further 12% of our oil needs coming from in house is certainly simplistic, that is not a negative reasonI've highlighted the section that you are wrong on.
I find it interesting that you have a religeous preoccupation against drilling when you seem rather against dogma replacing thought in other areas.It isn't religious. All I'm looking for is for someone to say that if we pump X barrels here, we will cut our imports by X barrels.
I guess you could call self-reliance a "religion".
Well, guilty as charged.