We have enough natural gas to meet 500 years of demand. So, where is the NG-Powered car? Where are the Diesel-powered passenger cars and light trucks (which alone could end our dependence upon foreign sources)? Every other automotive country in the world is switching to them. Not us. A Toyota Corolla with the Diesel motor available in Japan gets over 60 mpg!
Any fool with minimal what used to be HS science and math can see that Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, and Nuclear power will reign for the next 200 years ... not wind, solar, tide, and whatever a the mind of a lawyer who majored in "English" can conjure up.
Sure we should develop "Alternative Sources." In the meantime the fools whom some malignant gods have placed in charge with the votes of the stupid have no right to cripple our economy while they chase pseudo-scientific will'o'the-wisps.
The number one problem the US has is energy!
At $4/gallon for gas, our consumer based economy is not going anywhere.
Romney should have put forth a simple plan to fix the price of oil at $50 per barrel, by selling future rights to our own oil. A slightly more complex plan would tie part of the revenue to reducing the debt.
IOW/ drill baby drill needs to be actualized into a common sense plan that can be pasted on a gas pump.