We have the ability to be energy suffcient, but there are dark forces in our government that do not want this.
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/08/24/usgs-boosts-amount-of-marcellus-gas-reserves/

A new assessment of the Marcellus Shale says the Northeastern U.S. formation may contain 84 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, recoverable natural gas, far more than believed less than a decade ago.