The Dangerous Game of More of the Same
This is what the nation's 'gas lines' looked like in 1973 with the OPEC Oil Embargo. Since then the USA's answer under Republican leadership, thirty long years of lack of innovation or change, was to use less energy to achieve the same result. In other words, fuel efficient internal cumbustion engines were perferred in order to 'make the resources last longer.' There was no 'switch' to an electric car rather than continued dependence on oil itself.
What McCain wants to do is no different than what Nixon did in the 1970s. We witnessed the building of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline in response to the the OPEC Oil Embargo. Now, John McCain wants to drill offshore of the USA for marginal amounts of oil that might exist there to attempt to have a 'traditional' Republican answer. It's hideous to continue a strategy already 30 decades old with finite answers. 
This is a picture of a stretch of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. The 'sliders' noted is to assist the pipleline to be resiliant to Alaskan earthquakes along the Denali Fault. This is an extreme measure that is not an answer to energy or transportation of the USA. It is a 'bandaid' and that is all offshore oil drilling is as well. Noted, the sliders have a limit.
