I've been trying to figure out why I feel so curmudgeonly lately, and so ready to disdain optimists. I think it is an aftershock to the whole Katrina episode. I worry that energy policy is to energy, as disaster policy is to disasters.

Both the response to Katrina, and the response to the response, have shown "American governance" in a pretty bad light.

These polls reinforce that feeling.  In this day and age, we've still got people blaming the producers for their own "need."  (OPEC has apparently done some good PR to get "domestic producers" higher on the "blame" list.)

Now things might slowly evolve, and the public might be willing to take on a little more repsonsibility for ... [what am I saying, turns off computer, leaves room]