[SallyIsNice5]

It's not enough, the idea that American is addicted to oil may of surprised a few people, but to me it was stating the obvious. Solar Power, wind power, these are all alterntive sources of powers that should of been fully utilized years ago but they aren't part of the solution of depending on oil. Coal, yes, but not oil. The reality is that this is a problem thats been around for a long time, at least since the 70's when the first fuel crises showed its ugly head. We're just now being forced to face this problem that we always knew, and the alterntive to oil simply just doesn't exist (Thus, trying to get more out of oil might equally be as good as putting our dollars and hopes into seven years down the road with R&D).
Granted, R&D, works to some degree but to me its a little niave to think that technology will pull a rabbit out of its hat. As for Ethanol, I for see problems that you face due to farming like the wether, and at best we can only relieve 40% of our dependant upon oil. Solar Power is no good for cars, neither is wind power, and hydrogen is a old concept but its still unfeaseable. If anything, I think the energy policy is too little too late, because we're obviously running into a wall here as the market for oil grows tighter and tighter. I'm just sorry it took this long to get interested, if we had started 20 years ago maybe it would of worked but we don't have that luxury (Problems I'm not pinning on one President, or one politican, but on the USA as a whole).
I don't know what we're going to do, but considering a bunch of people who have oil are unfriendly to us, I'd say that we start by stop calling everybody a "evil bastard and telling them to screw themselves". We aren't in this world alone, and obviously we can't do anything entirely without them (as this whole oil problem suggest, kinda ironic considering how much fuel Aircraft Carriers and tanks use up). I'd say that we're screwed, but I want to have some hope at least, maybe technology will pull a rabbit out of its hat and we'll all live happily ever after! I tell you one thing though, the guy, gal, or team who comes up with this new recycable energy source (if it exist), will change the world in a single moment. Energy is the one thing that us held us back all these years, why haven't those who wanted rocket packs got rocket packs now that those times have come (Besides them being unsafe)? Energy, so as soon as somebody comes up with such a thing they'll be saying "Edison who?" Well, I can dream anyway. ^.^