i still think you miss the point of drilling tony.

Its not that we are going to drill ourselves out of this. Its that we will have some type of sustained oil for a number of years. We can reduce our dependancy by 10-15% by using our own oil. that alone would save us money.

Thats the whole point behind doing EVERYTHING, we cant possibly supply ourselves with the 20 billion barrels or whatever we buy a day, but what we can do is knock that number down to 15 Billion barrels, convert 20% of cars to run on CNG, use Wind an solar for buildings/communities

see what i mean, drilling is a piece of the pie, not the end all solution