It’s way to late to start talking about doing anything in rapid fashion. We are already doing all that we can do with what we have.
This industry simply does not work that way. The time to start was ten years ago.
There is no simple solution for the mess that many of us in this industry tried to warn the public about several years ago.
This takes advance planning and steady progress to make happen. The strength of this industry builds slowly and needs to be maintained at a certain level from there on. In this day of instant gratification, it is nearly impossible to explain it to most folks. They just do not understand.
Open up domestic oil drilling immediately. Turn back on the older wells now capped off. Fast-track new safe nuclear power plants. Stop creating global food shortages by killing off corn-based Ethanol production. Waive the punitive duty on cheap Brazilian sugar cane ethanol. Plant lots of domestic switchgrass for cleaner & cheaper ethanol manufacture. Begin a crash construction program of 50 new advanced nuclear power plants nationwide. Stop burning up natural gas to generate electricity. Build new clean coal-burning electric power plants nationwide (China is turning one per week for the next 5 years), and construct coal-to-oil conversion plants. The Germans were doing this in WWII. Alternative-energy sources like cheap 4th-generation solar panels will ramp up as their prices continue to fall.
I think it is too late for you. It isn't too late for my husband and his co-workers. We are on the beautiful California Coast and we have oil washing up on shore from natural seepage. We know it is possible to get the infrastructure in place to begin our energy independence. The mere initiation of such plans will begin a positive change.
My husband will never be a grumpy old naysayer. He is a can-do kind of guy and the USA is lucky to have guys like him ready to roll. My husband does think you should be proud of what BP is doing in Alaska.