text: *Rig lights come on at twilight in the Permian Basin of Texas, where crews drill around the clock in the liquids-rich Bone Spring play. This is the newest in a*
  *series of energy booms that has enabled West Texas cities like Midland to prosper for almost 100 years.*
  
  I am pleased to report that we have apparently finally convinced 
  President Barack Obama and Congressional leadership to recognize that 
  the energy path America is on today is completely unsustainable. There 
  appears to be growing recognition that it is spectacularly dangerous for 
  America to continue importing 9 million barrels of oil per day and exporting  more than $1 billion per day in national wealth to oil exporting countries. 
  America’s undiminished appetite for foreign oil has created the larg- 
  est wealth transfer in the history of the world. The political leadership 
  in Washington, D.C., has not seemed overly concerned about this issue 
  until recently. However, after President Obama’s recent speech calling 