Why is the US producing so little energy?

"With the world's largest reserves of coal, after creating the nuclear power industry ex nihilo, and with billions of oil still under our soil and waters, it makes no sense to produce less energy while blaming and taxing those who produce what we have, rather than drilling, digging, and saving, as we find ways to transition to the alternate energies."

Is it really better to pay or enemies and fair-whether "friends" for oil when we really could be independent if we really wanted to?

The Corner on National Review Online