"Drill baby drill." The price of gasoline topped $4 and that chant resonated through political campaigns. It looked for a little while like we might actually utilize some of our country's natural resources. Boone Pickens was on TV as much as the candidates touting CNG and wind power.

The economy has gone to pot, people started to conserve a little and the oil producing folks saw the trend. Gasoline prices miraculously dropped a dollar. Now everyone is saying, "Whew, what a relief." Drilling will go by the wayside since congress didn't want to do it anyway and we'll start buying those big pickups and SUVs again. How dumb can we get?

For you young folks, "Happy days are here again" was the theme song of the great depression.