Eugene,
but if Pick Oil is truth there the answer for your questions. You mentioned "when we will start getting oil out of Alaska" - well I just watched today geography documentary film and they and found out that we are drilling in Alaska for 30 years now and running out of oil there very fast. Matter fact oil companies spending billions of $ for new technologies for machinery called "get oil till last drop" - which gets into last reserves (some only 2 feet thick!) to get oil out of there.. I call that an act of desperation.. Alaska responsible for 20% of used oil in all US. if we are at the Pick Oil we definitely have to vote for democrats because they are the ONLY party that will lead us to the change to renewable energy. Republicans will only lead us to more wars over the oil and final crash of economy.