Opinion Editorial by Marita K. Noon Executive Director, Energy Makes America Great Inc. Chaos in the Middle East and the subsequent spike in prices at the pump spotlight the failure of America’s long-term energy policy. Reminiscent of the seventies, we are, once again, held captive by other’s instability. Just the potential tanker delays through the Suez Canal caused a price spike—and, that was before region-wide rebellion and production disruptions were reality. Muammar Gadhafi’s announcement that he would sabotage his own country’s oil infrastructure in effort to retain control caused a thirty-month high in oil’s rising prices. While much of Libya’s…

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