I disagree that the appearance has anything to do with it. If that were the case there would not be the thousands upon thousands of them in CA, AZ,WA and all the other locations that have them. It is 100% political.

The administration, this one like all the rest, keep telling us it is a long term fix. Many aspects of which could take as many as 10 years to realize benefits. The government established the DOE specifically to implement programs to free us from foreign oil. A complete separate building with thousands of workers spending trillions of dollars over the last 40 years accomplishing absolutely nothing.

Progress begins with having a plan. We do not. The oil producing countries are comfortable in their position with us because they know we will continue to pay homage to those in the oil business both foreign and domestic whose best interest is for business to continue as usual.

The USA could have an immediate impact, starting the day they announce it's intentions to reduce foreign supplied oil by 50%, specifically eliminating purchases from the middle east. Then state the steps to be taken i.e. increased drilling from X to Y, mandate wind farms in some manner effective by X/XX/XXX, eliminate V-8 and V-6 engines in vehicles beginning x/xx/xxxx and so on.

The day after the announcement there would be a differnt attitude in the world of energy suppliers. And yes, initially it will not all be good BUT we would be on our way to accomplishing what we said we needed to do over the past 40 years. Then as little as 10 years from now we would be in the position energy wise politicians have been banging their gums about and doing nothing.

It IS as simple as that!!

btk