Sooooo.... The administration wants OPEC to increase supply and lower prices in order to keep the American Consumer happy but doesn't want to increase production here and therefore increase jobs, because green reasons. Explain to me again how oil extraction in the Middle East and other oil producing countries is less environmentally damaging than doing it here is, especially when taking into account transportation energy requirements and risks. Pipelines from North Dakota and other US states, as well as our northern neighbors in Canada are less costly and environmentally risky than shipping it via tanker, especially taking into account that there always seems to be the risk of piracy or military action on the routes that the tankers take.