Someone from the oil drilling side of the debate is going to have to explain to me, how the price of gas at the pumps is going to decrease if we start pumping 2 % of our total need. Everything that I read states that the best we could expect by more drilling is 2% or our total consumption.

Are the oil companies going to sell us the oil cheaper than what they can get in the global market? How will they be able to justify the additional cost of exploration and drilling.

If you want to sell the pro side on continuing the drilling of oil to satisfy our glut for oil, you need to find a better reason the prices. Prices will just not go down, if anything they will just continue to increase whether we drill or not drill.

Alternate renewable energy is the only way to go.