It all seems so simple. All we need to do as a nation is to ween ourselves from over-seas oil. Here are four simple steps, go tell your elected officials to start getting serious.
1) Prominently increasing North American energy supplies, thereby increasing energy security (technologies include frontier hydrocarbon technologies such as gasification, including hydrogen production; gas-to-liquids; tar sands, oil sands, and other heavy crude extractive and processing technologies)
2) Providing additional nonhydrocarbon supply options (ethanol1, biodiesel, wind and solar)
3) Moving towards globalizing a regionally limited natural-gas market to reduce risks associated with supply and price (LNG)
4) Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (new emission-free supplies such as nuclear, wind, solar; more efficient end-use technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells and advanced technology vehicles; reduced emissions from hydrocarbon usage such as coal gasification, cogeneration and deployment of CO2 capture and sequestration technologies and strategies).