Actually, we DON'T NEED IT. It is like heroin, and it's why we are in thrall to the middle east dictators. You could drill in every National Park, every seashore, and it would make little difference to the situation. It STILL wouldn't be enough. Our presidents would still be scraping and bowing as the last couple have.
It just puts off the inevitable a LITTLE longer. We need to learn to DEAL WITH THAT.
"Drill baby, drill"? Yeah, and I can see Russia from my back window. LOL!