Congress didn't resolve the problem everybody could see coming 30 years ago when the problem could have been averted cheaply. Now it is here and it is too late. It is possible we cannot afford anymore to get alternatives such as coal to liquid going.
This a very real concern. The $3T that the Bush administration added to the national debt since 2000 would have paid for 1,000 nuclear plants, had we had the will to build them. Now we might start to have the will, but not the money.