Will cheap gas power America's future, or destroy it?

Bin Laden has directly cited US foreign oil consumption as the main reason for 9/11

Does $4.00 gas sound expensive? Sure it does, but really $4.00 gas is probably what gas should have cost 10 years ago. Today, the real cost of gasoline is well over $4.00 per gallon when the costs of securing America's foreign oil are added into the equation. Add in the costs of pollution to health care associated expenses, such as asthma, lung cancer, etc and the real cost of gasoline is yet higher. Add in the costs of war in the Middle East, 9/11, etc and the real cost of gasoline skyrockets well beyond $10.00 per gallon.

So, if Americans are just paying $3.00 at the gas pump, who is paying for the rest of the real cost of gasoline? Oil fairies?

Yet our politicians are striving to reduce the price of gasoline - something that has always increased consumption in the past? Am I missing something?