I'm sitting here watching Bush talk about his energy plan and I don't get it. it seems his priorities go ;

Petroleum - Didn't Bush have an oil well and petroleum company ?
We can either burn it or make plastics from it, we seem to be burning it.

Drilling Anwar oil reserve - thought a reserve was for when we ran out, are they saying we've run out ?

Natural gas - the more we use, the faster it is gone.

Pipelines - to use it faster with less transport cost for the companies making the money.

Nuclear, "Clean and safe" ?? can you say Chernobyl ? and what are they doing with that radio active waste with the 10,000 year half life they've been collecting over the past years ?

Coal - They've gotten better at restoring the surface of the strip mines but one wonders about what happens to the water flowing through the acidic mines and the re settling in the disturbed layer above the coal bed, whether it is strip mined or mined from below and left to collapse when done. Then there are the embedded elements that are causing problems like Sulfur and Mercury.

Ethanol almost makes sense if we don't need to eat the corn they're thinking of using for the mash and you don't consider the fuel it takes to grow and process it.

Hydrogen - nuclear derived. this is crazy, see above, but would create sell-able energy. wind source Hydrogen makes more sense, though there is possible problems with killing birds if placement of the tower is not studied, but then farmers could join in and the supply could be decentralized.

Bio diesel - from food service recycled oils or soybean oil. the former works if you can transport it, refine it and remove the french fry smell for less energy than it takes to refine and use it, but the soybeans are a food stock we may need to eat soon.

Wind - is intermittent and finding the spots and heights to put the mills is the key to quick return on the installation cost and then you need a battery of some sort like Hydrogen tanks for when the wind stops.

Solar - make them cheaper and it'll work well in the right latitudes with the newer low power light sources, but it also needs a battery for when the sun is down or obscured.

Clean diesel? - was that the ones putting out carbon in a size that would lodge in your lungs and caused black lung problems since the particles were too small for your lungs to deal with ?

Conservation - is endless and can actually be carried to the point where energy removal is the need.

I find the order of the list very telling in that he is promoting the current standards , with the exception of the clean diesel the list is upside down to an outcome that is sustainable. And that is also assuming the population of the world declines rather than increases as it is ding now.