If you want to get rid of oil, you should be advocating that we pump as fast as we can and burn as much as we can as fast as possible. As long as oil is out there relatively cheap, it effectiveness as an energy source is going to make it king of the fuel hill. Until we significantly use up the existing world oil reserves, Oil is going to be the Market's fuel of choice. All we are doing is relying on other countries to pump it and refine it. That is stupid. That Oil is going to get used on way or another. We should be the ones profiting from it.
The faster you use it up, the more prices rise, and the more America-hating dictators profit. And I’d love to believe that we could seriously cut our imports with untapped domestic supplies, but let’s be serious; they’d help, but they’re not nearly enough (excepting coal liquefaction, which is underway despite the greenies hate of it, and oil shale, which isn’t profitable yet)
Coal liquefaction (as well as Canadian bitumen) will give us plenty of oil, enough to meet our needs if we so require, but it’ll continue to be expensive oil. It’s dirty, too, which increases the odds of Rats and RINOs, as well as the leftist majorities in Canada, trying to ban or cut back on it. Alternative fuels are a stopgap, sort of like tapping our untapped oil reserves; they help a little, but not nearly enough. The only major way we can get back to cheap travel is for a relevant percentage of the world’s vehicles to become EVs or plug-in hybrids (there are few limits on how much electricity we can produce, thanks to huge supplies of coal and centuries of nuclear fuel, plus even our huge existing off-peak capacity). Even for those who don’t drive EVs/plug-ins, prices would drop, as the demand on oil would drop, which would lower gas prices for all.
EVs/plug-in hybrids are one “green” tech that I actually like. Anything that gives me more horsepower in a lighter engine, cuts my cost per mile, and sticks it to Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and Russia all at the same time gets good marks in my book.