A group of black ministers and a leading black civil rights activist took to the streets of Salt Lake City the night before the opening of Redford's glamorous Sundance Film Festival in January to express their displeasure with his efforts to kill oil production. A group of mostly black protesters led by civil rights warrior Niger Innis, spokesman for the New York-based Congress of Racial Equality, suggested that Redford "relinquish his wealth" and live like a poor person concerned about fuel.

"The high energy prices we're going to see this winter are essentially discriminatory," said Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., of the Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., as quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune.

Opponents of the drilling leases responded as they always do, arguing that domestic production of oil couldn't possibly help with our dependence on foreign oil.

Try to follow their logic: We need more oil, but the solution isn't more oil.