Build Nuclear. Build Up the Grid, and put money into battery research and hydrogen research.
Oil price shock was a major factor in the current crisis. It’s insane not to take steps to protect against another one. And it’s insane to bet the farm on unproven, so called green technologies of questionable viability.
If it was about “getting off foreign oil” we wouldn’t be denying our nation use of our own oil.
"Never waste a crises..." says Rahm.
It has always bothered me how oil prices collapsed during the election, thereby removing a powerful issue for the Republican party. It's more than ironic to me how prices are soaring now that 'bam is in office.
It's a handful of governments that control the oil market, and none of them are our friends, so it's plausible.
And it's truly scary that it could be so easy to policy, even elections here. People can't see much beyond their noses.
Your forgot, drill our own oil, the number one priority in the US right now, or it should be. Nuclear plants should be next, wind and solar should be never, at least not for the foreseeable future.