When one looks at the US energy consumption from an engineering standpoint, one quickly sees that there are very few “solutions” to the issue of replacing oil in the US economy. The so-called “alternative” energy sources being touted (solar and wind) don’t provide base load power sources unless massively over-build for the demand being placed on them, or until we design huge storage capacity into the grid. Nuclear power would be an option, if not for all the goddamn environmentalist fools and tools standing in the way.

No matter which political party is peddling this schtick, there’s always the second law of thermodynamics standing in the way of their supposed agenda.