It’s Time for Fuel Choice

Yemen’s government narrowly averted this week an al Qaeda attack on its oil infrastructure.  If the jihadists had succeeded in taking off-line Yemeni oil exports, the world price per barrel would almost certainly have spiked, costing American and other consumers still more at the pump.

Our dependency on imported oil for roughly 12 million barrels per day is clearly reckless.  That’s especially true since the OPEC cartel keeps cutting back its supply to keep prices artificially – and exorbitantly – high.

The answer to both problems is to exploit our windfall finds of natural gas here at home by introducing “fuel choice” into our transportation sector.  Legislation called the Open Fuel Standard Act has just been introduced to enable such choice.  Urge your representatives to co-sponsor it – and begin providing us with energy security.