Why not do the smart thing and conserve energy and use renewable > resources?
Almost nobody wants to conserve energy unless the price rises enough (it wouldn't hurt if we gradually raised gas taxes but rebated them
100% on a flat basis), but we could save more energy through conservation than we could gain through more drilling or mining, and conservation can be implemented a lot sooner.Renewable resources aren't as much an answer or as easy an answer as we'd like. Solar makes a lot of economic sense for heating domestic water but not yet for electricity. Reprocessing nuclear fuel or breeding it is probably a good idea, but trying to substitute one hydrocarbon for another is mostly a zero sum game.