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When someone says "America lacks a plan", what they mean is they don't want to drill. Increasing domestic supply of course would be a plan, would use existing infrastructure, and would utilize the cheapest form of energy. Oil. It would make supply adjust to demand quickly, lowering prices. But I'm sure you hate oil for some emotional reason I can't fathom. The problem with any plan that involves giving priority to alternative energy is you can't get around the fact that it will be expensive. Extremely expensive. Subsidizing it with tax dollars doesn't make it less so. It just means someone else pays. This "plan" will take an enormous bet on which speculative technologies will dominate in the future. Bet wrong and you've wasted an awful lot of money investing in infrastructure that is useless. Bet right, and it will still take years if not decades to bring the cost down to where oil is today. I say drill, and keep investing in promising technologies until there's a breakthrough.