Obama and crew are against this and nuclear energy. So how many windmills and solar panels will it take to ease the drain on our wallets?
In regards to windmill and other natural power. You would be surprised how many other nations are running on windmill power. Many nations receive upwards of 40% of their energy through Windmill and Mirror technology (I forget the name of the actual technology but it is an array of mirrors that send beams of concentrated light/heat to a central point to generate energy).

Combine this with the fact that Hoover Dam has a very poor future predicted for it I feel that we do need to do something now in order to try to put things in place to alleviate problems of the future.

While I don't think we can rely solely on windmill and natural power as a means to supply our nations energy, you can't argue that in the long run this will help ease the transition from Oil to alternative energy. There are several areas in the united states that are ideal for very large wind farms.

The problem is that these Windfarms cost alot of upstart money and it is still cheaper for electric companies to use resources such as coal and oil to generate electricity and then just roll over that cost onto the consumer than it would be for them to build these large farms.

Like with most things the benefit is not immediate but rather something that happens over time. That's what we need to be addressing.. what can we do now to help relieve some of this pressure and what can we do in the future to prevent/avoid it all together.

Both parties need to see that the two issues are not seperate but rather one in the same and they should be working together. Not against each other. They both need each other to help America reach it's goals of being independant from foreign oil in addition to preventing the problem in the future by starting NOW to move to an alternative source of energy.

ps: I'm all for the move to nuclear energy. Technology has come a long way and it's used throughout the rest of the world. We are one of the few nations who don't really utilize nuclear power in addition to natural power on the same scale as everyone else.