As a nation, we need to ramp up:
- Domestic oil production
- NG to oil production
- Coal to oil production
- algae to bio-diesel production
Just for clarification, we don’t turn NatGas into oil or coal into oil. There are Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) and Coal-to-Liquid technologies that create liquid fuel like diesel, kerosene, etc.
I agree all benefit our nation, if economic. I don’t want to see the government doing any part of it, besides cutting needless red tape.
The thing we need to ramp up is nuclear. Especially Thorium and pebble bed technologies. It is by far the safest, least expensive technology with a virtually limitless source of fuel.