Screw it! Let's dig fer OIL!!! (just to drive Gore insane!)(plus, it'll make his big oil holdings worth less!)
I have no objection to going after oil, especially if it's a choice between our getting it and letting Castros' Chinese goons take it out of our offshore locations.
I can even get behind trying to underwater mine methane hydrates.
But I also see great potential for growing much of our own fuel. If I were a farmer, that would be one of my first projects; trying to find a way to reduce my own energy bill.
Whether it was a solar still for ethanol, or an algae project for biodiesel, I'd be getting into something!