他们长久以来对廉价石油的痴迷，以及用“非美国生活方式”的理由来反对能源改革的做法助长了一种试图用钻探，围堰和采掘等方式来解决国家能源问题的迷思。
An historical addiction to cheap gasoline, and opposition to energy reform as “un-American,” has fueled an obsession with drilling, damming, and digging the country’s way out of problems.