...and say goodbye to Saudi and Venezuelan oil. Why not?

Why not? Well, apparently you've mistaken the left-wing talking point for sincerity. The screaming for getting away from our dependency on imported oil is phony. They don't care about and they don't have the remotest thought about depending on our own oil. What the really want, and they can't say it out loud so they mask it behind criticism of Republicans over wanting to drill in bad places, what they really are talking about is diminishing our standard of living. It's never about domestic drilling, it's always about diminishing the Western standard of living.