I would disagree on the original premise that we've started all these wars. We've gotten involved in them and, except for our current Commander-In-Chief, took leadership roles in them; but "started them"? Maybe I'm the one looking at this wrong, but except for the 2nd war with Irag, which ones did we start?

Your free market solutions don't take the vast amounts of domestic oil below our own feet into the equation. Our economy is not going to run without oil in the short time. We'll need huge quantities of oil for the foreseeable future. There are at present no feasible alternatives. Our domestic oil coupled with the world's largest coal reserves could serve us for many generations.

While we debate about it and discuss future theories on alternative energy sources to run our economy, let's just start drilling. C'mon, really ............. let's start drilling. Anywhere and everywhere. We could use more refining capacity also.