I keep hoping people will learn but I am no longer surprised when they don’t. As gas prices crept higher and higher people screamed about energy

Unless you are, say, a family with oil ties to Saudi Arabia, the headline probably scared you. 

I will go on record by saying that although I am not happy with the oil prices going up, it may indeed be the best thing for America in the long term. 

No, not for any environmental save-the-platypus reasons — just old-fashion we-need-to-be-self-sufficient reasons. 

• We burn 25 percent of the world’s oil but only have 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves — see a problem yet? 

• We cannot continue to rely on other countries for our energy (or food or supplies or insert just about anything here). 

• China and India’s energy demands are expected to double by 2030 (they would then import more oil than the U.S. and Japan combined).