For some time now I've been tinkering around with a post detailing the sheer ridiculousness of the notion that turning our nation's coastlines and wildlife refuges over to the oil industry for exploitation will somehow solve our energy problems, but as usual, Mikey says it better than I could. All I can do is give it a big old "Hell yeah!"

Is this really happening? In this age of pollution, global warming and climate change, polar melting, ocean acidification and fisheries collapse, overpopulation and world hunger, illegal and arbitrary wars, genocide, ethnic and sectarian "cleansing" and other assorted religious craziness, is forcing gasoline prices down really becoming a top political issue for Americans? Wanna know why the rest of the world considers us stupid, selfish, greedy and dangerous? Because we are.