Nothing has been done in years except to exploit corn for ethanol and Wind Farms using age old technology with no way to save the energy generated by the wind...when it blows. McCain would do well to join his colleagues and demand we drill NOW without law suits getting the way and we build new refineries and look at coal for energy. Good lawyers will applaud this rather than greedy ones helping Greenies and others stand in the way of United States being dependant on others for her oil no longer.
They had these wind farms for miles and miles out of Modesto, Calif. back in the 1970's. Most of them weren't working because of busted propellers etc. They also had solar panels on top of houses back then. If any of this worked or was profitable they would have been going gung ho by now. After all it has been almost 40 years.
Now I live in Eastern Washington and they are putting these awful things on the top of the only foothills we have here.