Smiley Anders of The Baton Rouge Advocate writes in his column today:

That's oil, folks…: Bliss Sheer, noting that a lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in the United States, endeavors to explain:

"There's a very simple answer. Nobody bothered to check the oil! We just didn't know we were getting low.

"The reason for this is purely geographical. All the oil is in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Wyoming, etc., and all the dipsticks are in Washington, D.C."