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We should right now do the following:

1. Aggressively build more wind turbines in the Upper Midwest, one of the best places in the world for wind power.
2. Aggressively build more solar farms in the US Southwest, one of the best places in the world for solar power.
3. Aggressively opening up more oilfields out in the continental shelves off the coast of the USA.
4. Aggressively develop the technology necessary to extract oil from shale rock in situ to open up around 1 trillion barrels of oil to the US market.
5. Aggressively develop the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) nuclear reactor to take advantage of the huge amount of thorium-232 we have in reserve.

Do all these and we could cut oil imports to a tiny amount of what is done now.

1. Aggressively build more wind turbines in the Upper Midwest, one of the best places in the world for wind power.

They're aleady "Aggressively" (against the will of the people) building those monuments to stupidity and our bills are reflecting the fact. Meanwhile they're tearing out dams that actually produced electricity consistently in the past and could again with retrofits comparable to the cost of erecting an idiot's pinwheel.

In fact, one of the good things about the smart grid is the ability to feed power in from multiple sources like the hundreds of dams in the midwest.