We have an unhealthy addiction to oil which will eventually kill us if we don’t quit now. So what should we do? Obviously, drill for more in the hopes that our dependence will become more affordable. It’s like when you go to a treatment center for your meth addiction and they teach you how to make the stuff cheaper at home. What? Making a problem worse doesn’t solve the problem? Ah shit, then can we try the last 8 years over again?

President Bush lifted an executive order banning offshore oil drilling on Monday and urged Congress to follow suit.

Citing the high prices Americans are paying at the pump, Bush said from the White House Rose Garden that allowing offshore oil drilling is “one of the most important steps we can take” to reduce that burden.

However, the move is largely symbolic as there is also a federal law banning offshore drilling.

“This means that the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil reserves is action from the U.S. Congress,” Bush said.

Bush has been pushing Congress to repeal the law passed in 1981.

“There is no excuse for delay,” the president said in a Rose Garden statement last month.

“In the short run, the American economy will continue to rely largely on oil, and that means we need to increase supply here at home,” Bush said, adding that there is no more pressing issue for many Americans than gas prices.

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