[Graeme]

Four Ways to Solve the Energy Crisis

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')nergy-independence advocate Gal Luft looks for winners. The former lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces and counterterrorism expert fervently believes that the only way to make America safe is to make it energy independent. And so as executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and cofounder of the Set America Free Coalition, he has set out to do just that.

Luft advises Congress and security companies. He briefs industrial and environmental groups. Yet what separates him from other energy specialists are his pragmatic solutions. He doesn't peddle pie-in-the-sky political strategies. He's a realist. He has a single goal: freeing America from the grip of foreign oil. And he wants to do it now. At right are four steps he says we can -- and should -- take today.

1. Make gasoline-only cars illegal
2. Kill the Iowa caucuses
3. Think of the world in terms of sugarcane
4. Revolutionize waste

"These are only four of many common-sense opportunities throughout the economy, but we're not taking advantage of them, because there isn't a sustainable market for alternative fuels. Yet. Which brings us back to step one: flex-fuel technology. Get that and the other three will take care of themselves. There will be stiff opposition from the oil, corn, and auto lobbies. There always is. But let's hope that Washington can step up for a change. Because once you take politics out of the energy policy, you get very different -- and much better -- results."

[Concerned]

It's so easy why didn't our elite planners with masters degrees and PHD's think of it.

Case closed we're saved, party time.

[frankthetank]

I like 1 2 and 4, but 3 isn't going to do shit.

How about bikes, horses and walking shoes... local production of food and goods.