I believe the President could do most of this by executive order. While these might not be permanent changes, it would buy some time until our elected representatives (or morons take your pick) to pass legislation to make these changes permanent.

If this sounds radical to you, then I might suggest that you have bought into the limits-of-growth and woe-is-me attitudes currently dominating the Democratic Party. The doom and gloom leftist agenda has no vision (unless you believe that we can grow our own food; walk everywhere we need to go; conserve our way to prosperity) and no hope.

What I suggest is a solution that has mile stones and measurable results.

Does this mean I think we should rely on oil forever? No. But shale oil extraction, coal gasification, E85 fuels, methane and hydrogen are not the primary sources of energy in our economy.

Should we work at developing new technologies? Of course, but we need to get the courts and government out of the way. They are not solution, but the hindrance towards energy independence.