I'm going to tell you why oil companies aren't looking to develop oil shale deposits, even though people like Nancy Pelosi say that the oil companies have plenty of land with deposits and they should go after those, but aren't. The leases the oil companies get on those lands are for 8 years. The process to get permits to develop the deposits on those leased lands take 7 years, so they would have 1 year left to actually get oil. The process to get oil from shale is estimated to take 7 years from the start. So the company leases the land, spends 7 years and lots of money getting permits, then they start developing it, and one year into the development stage, they have yet to produce oil, so the lease automatically ends and they have to stop. Regulations handcuff them from doing anything, and this seems to be exactly the way Pelosi and other top Democrats want things to be. Really expensive oil, no ability to find more, all our money sent to the middle east, and every possible alternative shut down due to environmental concerns based on 40 year old technology. The solution Pelosi and Obama offer us to to blame it all on Bush, and do absolutely nothing.

Can't do nuclear because Chernobyl blew up 30 years ago. Can't do solar because there's a moratorium, can't do wind because rich people (Ted Kennedy, for instance) own all the good spots for it and don't want it in their backyard, can't develop hydroelectric because it disturbs the habitats of fish (ok, really it's because there just aren't that many great places for hydroelectric). Oh, but the Democrats do have one idea. Turn corn into ethanol (ethanol is not particularly efficient anyway), and cause millions to starve in other countries that depend on corn for sustinence.

What to do? Elect McCain, who is far from perfect, but at least has some ideas.

It's intersting, Conservatives seem to be the ones wanting change in out energy policy and sources, while Liberals seem to want things to stay the same. They say they want long term solutions, but don't offer anything at all.