In his Inagural address, President Kennedy said that we would reach the moon “in this decade”. Is it time for the US to launch a similar program to discover a way to wean ourselves away from the oil ******? And will the Republican Party ever have the backbone…that of T Roosevelt and the National Park System…to initiate such a program?

OK, I know that this will allot for jobs for many sceintists researchers and technology professionals the problem is I don’t really see scientist and researchers in unemployment lines.
To steal a point form Obama’s visit to Indiana yesterday… how is alternative fuel and new technology bail out money going to provide jobs to the thousands of laid off workers in Elkhart IN? Are the many blue collar workers and retail workers that are flooding the unemployment offices? Are you seeing the disconnect? I’m not trying to be overly critical but do you see the obvious crack in this thing?
Blueberry, sweetie, I am not not insupport of Obama, I voted for him but I will not do what republicans did when bush was in power and just write the guy a blank check because of his party affiliation. He needs to SLOW DOWN! The fact of the matter is that the point you made is a good point but the timing is bad. Gas prices and all of that crap has very little to do with putting unemployed low skilled labor back to work and that is the point of what we are trying to do. There will be a time for energy issues, the time is just not now!

Lawmakers only focus on these high gas prices. I think they should look into investing funds into renewable energy and alternative fuels.

This is the only way we can successfully become energy independent. And these fossil burning fuels are ruining the environment.

For example they could put _______ billion dollars into automobile companies so they could lower the cost of hybrid cars, and _____ billion in the production of these vehicles.

Automobiles were invented over one hundred years ago. Wouldn’t you think, in all that time, someone would come up with a better, cheaper, more environmentally friendly, alternative fuel by now? Are certain people preventing us from learning about them…if they exist? It would be worth a lot to keep us in the dark.

And, yes, I’ve heard about vertical farming of corn or sugar, as opposed to horizontal farming, but it seems pretty odd.

In many states, the money used for the solar power credits is financed through an alternative fuels surcharge on regular utility customers. Is this an equitable action for governments to take?