We can do the same thing the Icelanders are doing, but with the understanding that nuke power would be our engine rather than geothermal.
If you favor hydrogen-powered cars, and battery-powered cars, then you have to be thinking about nukes. We should be building about fifty of them right now.
If you want to get off of foreign power sources, the immediate short-term answer is drill like crazy and build coal-to-diesel plants left and right. The long term answer is nuclear.
China is currently (pun intended) building 35 NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, with plans for 300 MORE!.................At least our money is paying for somebody's nuclear power..............