Seems part and parcel of the right's decades-long attack on real expertise. The new experts are the ones who hold the correct ideology, not the ones who know anything about the subject.

Actually, that plot is misleading--assuming the numbers on the right are correct, the height of the yellow region is too large (about 1/12 the size of U.S. oil consumption when it should be 1/28 the size).
But, never mind me; I should defer to Sarah Palin's greater expertise on this one.

I am especially struck by the fact that in 2030, despite the additional production being fully online, the U.S. will still be importing more oil than we are currently.

That's not energy independence we can believe in!

I agree almost entirely, but wasn't Palin chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for a year? That doesn't real undermine your point (esp. "shill for Alaskan energy interests), but I just thought I'd put it out there.

Drill, ye tarriers, drill
Drill, ye tarriers, drill
For it's work all day for the sugar in your tay
Down beyond the railway,
And drill, ye tarriers, drill.

The new experts are the ones who hold the correct ideology, not the ones who know anything about the subject.

"Energy Secretary Trofim Lysenko announced today..."

thank you. truly amazing. this is what I was thinking of when I requested a chart of the day a while back.

but there's another comparison that I think is apt: what part of the foreign consumption do we want to eliminate? Here are the top Crude and Total Petroleum importers:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

We know we want to eliminate Venezuela, but what about Saudi Arabia? Iraq? Russia? I will assume we can keep buying from Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, etc.

If we add up the 2008 ytd imports from those 4 countries, that's 3.85 mb/day. Let's say in 2030 it will be 5 mb/d. So we want to eliminate a little less than half of our foreign oil consumption. That means .2 mb/day will be only 4% of the full solution. That's another eye-opener.

And as a practical matter, Saudi Arabia is a significant ally on some issues; how do you reduce their oil imports to zero without destabilizing the Middle East?

I would really like to see, for purposes of comparison, the chart that shows how much oil would be saved by proper tire inflation, by adopting better CAFE standards, by cutting America's daily commute by 1 mile.

I'm betting that all of these things would be bigger than drilling offshore.

She is such an expert that 2 months ago she said "I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can't drill our way out of our problem."

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=300668510518137

Now, per her convention speech, "drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems, as if we didn’t know that already."

She is a quick study.

I also wonder if the federal govt.'s reluctance to allow more drilling isn't behind Todd and Sarah's flirtations with secession from the USA. He did take the secret service name "Driller" after all. That IBD article is enlightening.

Does "new offshore drilling" represent the total, including the larger part that is occurring under current constraints, or just the part that occurs in areas now off limits? Most of the Gulf of Mexico is open to drilling, and quite a bit of new drilling is being done.

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