Energy policy: Drop ideas of independence

The search for solutions to our energy challenges leads to one inescapable conclusion: There are no easy answers.

Regardless of who sits in the Oval Office next January, the reality is that world oil prices will never return to the “good old days” of the 1990s.


Domestic oil production reduces reliance on foreign sources, but our oil production peaked decades ago. Competing studies and conflicting expert opinions differ about the precise date of “global reckoning”