The liberal socialists have NO ANSWERS for anything, except their fanatic focus on attaining power and control over the entire Washington government. They have the Congress presently and now the White House is their one and only purpose in life.
Socialist power and control. Nothing else matters.
The left has already given their answer.
They want higher gas prices and more gas taxes.
Not only do that not have answers, but the rest of the world, USA included, can see that socialism, high taxation, “universal” healthcare, preferences, immorality, etc. has failed everywhere.
I guess these dems were not listening to the hearing by Congressman Markey’s Subcommittee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. There was testimony from Nissan motors, the country of Denmark, and others. Their answer is to move to electric cars, with added investment in solar and wind power. Denmark gets 50% of their power from wind, which blows better at night when people would plug in their cars to recharge.
I have two south facing roofs which would be ideal for solar panels. Unfortunately the electric company only gives credit for power we put into the grid against our own electric bill. Since I have already cut my electric use to the bone, this would not be much help against the cost of installing solar. In Germany people are actually paid a premium for the power they put into the grid over their own usage. I would be happy just to get 70 to 80%, leaving the utility 20 or 30% for operating and infrastructure costs. Congressman Jay Insle is introducing a bill to make payment for surplus feed to grid available to all.
The final statement was that we should try to be completely independent of foreign oil in ten year. The analogy was drawn between Pres Kennedy’s response to the Soviet space challenge which involved incredibly complex technical problems, and Pres Bush’s minimal response to the energy problem which involves readily available technical solutions. Please don’t flame me I am just reporting what I heard.