[Night Hides Not]

I'm with you about putting OPEC out of business and we have more than enough coal here in the US, not to mention hydrogen fuel cells with be affordable in autos in the next 7 years.

If Dubya really wanted a legacy, why not promote a "Manhattan Project" for US energy independence? Put everything on the table: nuclear, wind, solar, coal, biofuel, ethanol, conservation, etc.

How much would it cost? Don't know, but not as much as what we're spending in Iraq, and the dividends would be realized more quickly.

Announce that in the SOTU address, and oil prices start dropping the next day.

[kidd]

If Dubya really wanted a legacy, why not promote a "Manhattan Project" for US energy independence? Put everything on the table: nuclear, wind, solar, coal, biofuel, ethanol, conservation, etc.

Bush, unlike his predacessor, isn't interested in a legacy.

But your idea is a good one (I'm in the nuclear power industry and formerly was in fuel cell research).

As weak as it is, Bush has done more for energy independence than any other president in history. Its not much, but its more than any previous POTUS.

[RSmithOpt]

"Announce that in the SOTU address, and oil prices start dropping the next day."

If nothing else, a dad-gum good bluff after the flop (Texas Hold'em).

I think we're screwed actually....Corporate America and Big Oil and a few others would have W shot the next day unless Congress got 90% behind the idea before the SOTU address.

I really like your idea on that though, regardless.