Yes SIR!!
Ok. So research would be... yada, yada, yada - we should have drilled years ago. Yada, yada, yada - we didn't, so now we're screwed.... yada, yada, yada - screwed by the environmentalists and democrats. Talk about blaming someone.
It's funny though - didn't John Kerry state and get ridiculed for saying that gas prices would be moving up if nothing was done.
SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) / Thursday, May 6, 2004 -- Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday called for a "new direction" in the nation's energy policy as consumers face escalating gas prices, and the Bush campaign hammered the presumptive Democratic nominee as a tax-spending liberal.