Krauthammer: Pump the Oil, Raise the Tax

Well, I’m not sure about the “raise the tax” although CK makes a good argument, but I wholeheartedly agree with this graf:

Since the invasion of Kuwait 13 years ago, the U.S. military has been on active patrol in the world's oil patch. With American soldiers at risk securing our oil economy, liberals have to be willing to discomfit a few caribou and allow us to start pumping new oil from Alaska. If we'd listened to their arguments the last time around, we would today be without the million barrels a day we get from the North Slope.

Every barrel pumped in Alaska is money in our pocket and revenue denied the Saudis.