I also remembered on some other news site that I was flipping through seen that opec warned the US that if we tapped those reserves that they would jack the price of oil way up(as if they're not doing that already) as punishment, cause as you said, it'd take years before that oil actually came on line. But oil isn't the only problem we have, the other one is the lack of refineries, there hasn't been a new one built in years because of the damn tree huggers, cause if we built a few more of them, they might interrupt the mating habits of the spotted hamster or sparky the sand flee or some damn thing.
