Recently, I've heard the same, odd message from a number of different, seemingly unrelated people. Essentially it goes like this "America is being held to ransom by crazy foreigners over oil. In order to solve the problem, we should drill into our own huge reserves, and become self-sufficient so we don't have to import any from those capitalist pigs at OPEC. Naturally then oil prices would tumble, fuel would be cheap. We wouldn't be dependent on those evil foreign-types." There's even a petition up about it at
http://www.americansolutions.com/. So I thought I'd take a look at this meme.