If we would have started drilling and building more refineries in 1998, then we wouldn't be using phrases such as "it will take a decade". There has to be a starting point for everything, and as far as I'm concerned there is no time like the present. We can start now, or we can still have this ongoing discussion about high oil prices in 2018. Either way, the problem isn't going to go away by itself.

Talking about "alternative fuels" and "what if's" aren't putting cheap gas into fuel tanks at the moment. Truthfully, we should be drilling, innovating, and exploring - all three simultaneously.

BTW, we passed an energy bill in 1998 that would have led to more domestic drilling, refining and oil production in the U.S. and thus lower prices. That bill was subsequently vetoed by the president. I can't say who vetoed it because APC doesn't want politics being discussed.