Interesting editorial in The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review giving Congress praise for doing what it does best -- nothing.

It appears that the 30-year-old ban on offshore oil drilling will expire on Sept. 30 -- if Congress does nothing.

And as we've seen over the past couple of years under Nancy Pelosi's leadership, this Congress has elevated doing nothing to an art form. (Recent polls show only 9 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.)

From The Tribune-Review editorial:

If Congress doesn't renew this backward bequest to the environmental lobby, an estimated 19 billion barrels of additional domestic oil will be open to exploration and drilling on Oct. 1 -- which some are calling Energy Freedom Day.

That amounts to about 30 years of current imports from Saudi Arabia, says Ben Lieberman of The Heritage Foundation. And that will allow the U.S. time to aggressively pursue and develop realistic energy alternatives -- not the corn syrup that is ethanol.

So let's hear it for Congress. By doing nothing -- which is what it does best -- Congress may actually get us out of the current energy crisis.

Read the full editorial, "Energy Freedom Day," at the newspaper's Web site.