Now imagine what could be done with 2 billion dollars earmarked for alternative energy, like solar, wind, geothermal and tidal. There are billions of watts of free, inexhaustible energy waiting to be tapped. Cover our landfills and biohazardous wastelands with solar panels. Use those thousands of acres of uninhabited desert to generate free electricity. Find the windiest places in the country and fill them with wind-powered generators.

Those cruddy oil companies don't need a cent of our money. They're just shovelling money into a drying well. Oil has had its day. Invest in the future people, not the past!

(And don't even get me started on the billions wasted on the Iraq war, which as far as I'm concerned is all about the oil. Do you know how many solar farms you could build for 400 billion? It boggles the mind!)