It is not just oil guys. The Obama Admin held the wind farm power grid from Texas which is clean energy along with several other projects that add up to over 300 billion of infrastructure work. That our nation needs to be self sufficient in energy is a given and it needs to be done the safest manner possible and as fast as possible to get off foreign oil. Our tanker problem comes because for whatever the reason we have ran in PC correct circles on infrastructure as the politicians battled out the global warming bit. That did nothing for global warming ( if that is your bag ) or energy independence because we then import it from other places. So we need to do our own energy and do it as safe as possible.

Then the other shoe CLEAN energy as fast as it can be done be it solar / wind / or whatever by making it advantageous for all our activities to move away from carbon based fuel. It can be done you know. When my brother had his place in LV his heat was electric as was water. In LV water and heat should be solar and it can be done in fact many things can be done to reduce the use of carbon fuels. Take cars I drove a Tesla S the other day guys that is one damn fine car and no gas no oil. It can be done if we choose too as a nation.