Saudi Oil and Less of It

"Comparing U.S. dependence on overseas oil to a "foreign tax on the American people," ...

but...

"When you increase the [oil production] capacity by a significant amount, which they [The Saudis!] are talking about, that can't help but have a positive downward effect on prices," said Bush's national security adviser, Steve Hadley.

So we've got our President inviting Saudi Arabian Royalty to a cafe in Tejas so that he can ask him to increase the production capacitiy of the oil which will directly benefit American families... and then the next day we've got that [presumably] same President rolling out his plan to "reduce our dependence" on Saudi Oil? How the hell are you going to do that? Are you going to ask them, again, to produce even more?

[Insert poorly worded yet possibly applicable, and charming and funny, comment about how reducing dependence on oil by begging for more oil is analogous to helping a heroin addict cut his usage by giving him more heroin here]