Bob Corker has signed on to a bill that should garner 100-0 support in the United States Senate

Corker, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said he joined more than 40 Republicans signing on to the “Gas Price Reduction Act” and indicated it could be debated in the Senate after the July Fourth recess.

Though it does not include authorization to explore and drill in ANWR, it is a start. The bill would allow for exploration in the Gulf, as well exploitation of shale oil deposits in the American West (the true answer to our energy crisis - read more here).

Alas, it will not pass the Senate, and would certainly die in the House, because Democrats in Congress (and everywhere they reside, for that matter), simply are not serious about energy independence. The proposals of their flag-bearer, the storied Senator from Illinois, are wrought with the ridiculous, focusing on known inefficient petroleum alternatives, such as solar and wind power. On a number of issues, this being chief among them, Barack Obama has shown an incurable penchant for offering childish solutions to adult problems.

Even if we tied solar cells on all our dogs, put mini windmills on their backs, and kept them plugged in all day, we would still not make a dent in energy production.

The real solution is more domestic supply, and at least this bill, though likely doomed to defeat, is a move in the right direction. Remember - our “oil addiction” is only a problem because we must import a disproportionate amount of it from the most backward, unstable places on Earth.  If the vast bulk of our energy came from within our borders, or international waters which we can patrol, all our lives change drastically for the better.

Why this concept is so difficult to comprehend befuddles me. One hundred and ten years of temperature data on a 4.5 billion year old planet, a selection of unreliable core samples, and a love of Arctic Circle wastelands, has birthed a religion that damages American well-being on a daily basis.

America’s greatest asset, which has over two centuries allowed us to do more good than any country ever fathomed, is our historically strong and fast-growing economy and the freedom that comes with it. Our nation’s energy policy and the environmental parishioners who fuel it are putting all that in immediate, and permanent, peril. World demand is increasing, and we are all trying to drink from the same, oligopolic tap.

Sheiks and Marxists are slowly dragging us to our knees, and apparently, some of us seem to really like it.