Nothing is going to help next week or even next year.
The Congress has waffled on an energy policy since 1970s.
You have to start sometime to build a reasonable policy that will produce results. So far, most alternative energy technologies are pie-in-the-sky hopes without feasible results.
And yet the Democrats in power seem to be willing to wait half a century for these technologies to become more feasible, yet they can't bring themselves to wait 3-10 years to have new offshore and ANWR oil leases pumped, produced, and distributed.
Their patience comes and goes, doesn't it?