U.S. Energy Policy Leadership Lack's Energy

National energy policy should be a shoo-in with high unemployment, oil at 80 dollars per barrel, protracted financial quagmire in Iraq to get oil field contracts and support service tax dollars for oil field services corporations and 30 years of practice failing to get off the fossil fuel failing career track, not to mention the Gulf of Mexico BP oil leak debacle. The Obama administration seems aenemic on intellectual vision on how to exploit all the political adversity in the United States to get an energy bill through congress that would radically break with reliance on fossil fuel automotive transportation. Perhaps the President still sucks on cigarettes and that is a good enough pacifier to prevent a desire to employ tens of thousands on new energy infrastructure.

Liguid hydrogen bathed superconductor lines for a new energy grid corethat would also provide power for direct electric car energy. Such a paradigm around the periimeter of the nation and through a few east-west/north south lines would cost maybe a trillion or more, yet would emply thousands and stimulate new technologies and business. it would store wind, solar and fuel cell generated electricity aswellas conventional, and ordinary citizens would be free to sell their home-produced power to that supper-conducting grid.

The United States needs a change in public infrastructure to create a new paradigm that will change the down drift of business as usual that so disadvantages Americans on trade balances, energy production ownership and automobile production. The United States is a Gulliver bound by ties of foreign ownership of technologies invented in America yet allowed to become an anachronistic levers against progress.