They can't really be this stupid.

I don't believe that the Democrats can possibly believe what they say publicly about oil exploration. They say that drilling for more oil will only increase our 'addiction' to oil. We are addicted to oil in the same way we are addicted to food and air, we need it to survive. They prefer to view energy as something we must learn to live without, something that we can give up as easily as that morning latte from Starbucks. They can't be this stupid, so the only other possibility is they are simply corrupt. Someone must be paying them to keep America's oil reserves off the market. All of their policies are designed to make us more dependent on foreign oil, from a windfall profits tax redux that was demonstrated to reduce domestic production to blocking offshore drilling, blocking ANWR drilling, and blocking development of our huge oil shale reserves. Coupled with their campaign against our nuclear industry (which totally crippled it), and their crusade against coal, it is obvious that their goal is to leave America completely devoid of domestic energy sources. They support wind and solar energy of course, because they can't provide anywhere near the amount of energy we need and are totally cost ineffective.  This is simply to give the illusion that they are not working to destroy our country for the benefit of their Middle Eastern friends, that they have a plan. They do of course have a plan, which is to transform America into a third world country. Either that, or they are just the most inept, ignorant, collection of morons the world has ever known.