It is simply unbelievable that America's leaders are failing the test of leadership in terms of developing an energy policy which weans the country from fossil fuels. American leadership has their head up their posterior end.

The New York Times | Opinion | Signs of Energy

The last three years have given the country more than enough reasons to re-examine its energy policies: a power crisis in California, a blackout in the East, global warming, sharply higher prices for gasoline, tighter markets for natural gas and now a stubborn war in the heart of the biggest oil patch in the world. Clearly, we need a disciplined program to use more efficiently the fossil fuels we now have, coupled with aggressive efforts to develop renewable sources of energy.