LET US DESIGN NEW ENERGY POLICIES TOGETHER

    The only way that America is going to become energy self sufficient again is if we set about to have several different modes of energy so that at no time can any other country (country's) or company (companies) can tell us as Americans what to do by holding our source of energy hostage. The following is what I propose as a basis for a New Energy Policy for our country:

        1) We change all of our transportation vehicles to hydrogen within ten years, like our neighbors to the north in British Columbia and the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership (SHHP).

        2) We invest in a magrail system between our major cities both intrastate and interstate, the technology has already been used in china and right here in the US on a model basis in Walt Disney's Epicot Center, I believe that it can also be adapted to carry cargo.

        3) We invest in nuclear fission and more nuclear power plants.

        4) We allow oil companies to drill offshore and in any known area that has oil with appropriate environmental safe guards.

    To implement all of these proposals we need congress to write an appropriations for a ten year period in the amount of 300 billion dollars a year.

    Our energy policy must be both comprehensive and immediate to really be effective and our politicians have to understand that all this bickering over whose fault our current crisis is and inaction on it is nothing but incompetence.