A very hefty amount of our reliance on foreign oil is due to Americans' attachment to cars. Apart from domestic drilling, and investment in electric cars and biofuels, there is little the American president can do to affect the price of gas, except propose a big increase in gas taxes, which makes a ton of sense but which the Congress plainly won't contemplate. But obviously what Americans can do by themselves is to buy more efficient cars, cut down on unnecessary travel, relocate to areas with good public transportation, and so on. The president was candid about this in public. And he gets this reaction:
High gas prices aren’t a bug, they’re a feature.
As if that's a bad thing.
The Dish 