The write correctly points out a largely unreported piece of news. The report by TransCanada (operators of the proposed Keystone Pipeline) clearly states that the majority of the oil will be exported to other countries upon reaching the Gulf. There is no other reason for such a pipeline to be built from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Otherwise, they'd simply build a refinery or two to process the oil and distribute it here.

I was similarly disgusted by Sununu's nonsensical, highly partisan tirade on gas prices. I was pleased to see three very excellent responses in Today's paper.Thank you all for writing them. Sununu is a fool if he thinks more drilling and building new pipelines is the answer to America's energy problem, which has been decades in the making. Every American President since Nixon has been lamenting our oil addiction, but lacks the political will to make the hard choices: chief among them, better fuel economy, investment in public transit and alternative energies. 5$ gas might finally be what we need to wean ourselves off our heavy reliance on Fossil Fuels.

This not a full speed ahead with oil and dam the water moment! As big an issue as big oil is, it still pales in comparison to water, something human beings need to survive; Exxon Mobil needs it only to generate profit.

This is an interesting article series from the oil industry, Bush administration and affiliated companies: http://mediamatters.org/mobile/research/201202240006 If you don't want to read it, the conclusion is that "Drill baby, drill!" is baloney, but then considering the source (Palin) you already knew that. In fact, drilling does nothing for the price of oil! The world market, through a complicated (read: complicit) arrangement, sets the price. That is why if Iraq theoretically closes the Striats of Hormuz, our oil price will rise...even though we do not import Iraqui oil!