Today the sign on the gas station across the street from my office reads $1.87 per gallon. A couple of months ago, none of us expected to see gas so cheap again. Now that the emphasis is on the sick economy, the price of oil has declined precipitously during the past few weeks, and we have just elected a new president, the once-important issue of offshore drilling has dropped off our collective radar screen--at least for now. But the issue is still the same, and so too the dangers facing the United States. If we continue to rely upon foreign oil produced in large measure by countries that do not like us much or, worse yet, are avowed enemies, then we remain politically, militarily, and economically vulnerable.
