Engergy Independence

On CNN Fred talked about the US economy and pushed for a fuel position that keeps us from Saudi caterwauling. His view is that

It's not in the United States' long-term interest to go hat in hand begging people to do things that in the end we know they're not going to do... What we need to concentrate on is diversifying our own energy sources here in this country and opening up what oil reserves that we have here [in places such as ANWR, edited out by Reuters], using nuclear more, using clean coal technology more and all the other things that we can do, [including research, instead of going hat in hand to these OPEC countries, edited out by Reuters]. (via Lexis-Nexis)

Note the omissions of ANWR and entreprenurialship. Fred does not seem to say that we need to drill in offshore oil rigs, and make more domestic refineries. Unless that is what Fred meant by "opening up what oil reserves that we have here in places such as ANWR.

Give me cheap gasoline. Refineries and drilling platforms would be a good start.