If you mean by that, "this won't return us to the days of cheap oil," you're right. Nothing else will, either. Those days are gone, and they're never coming back. The sooner we face that reality, and stop deceiving ourselves that we can restore the good old days by allowing drilling in environmentally-sensitive areas or by putting pressure on OPEC or in any other fashion, the sooner we can try to implement the only solution there is: increased efficiency plus alternative energy.