Pick up a newspaper open the business section and go to the commodities index. Wheat up 40%, production down 28%, corn for feed up 28% and is too expensive so beef and hogs are down in price as ranchers have to over-slaughter becuase they cannot feed our food herds. After about a year there will be no supply in these markets either and meat prices will rise sharply as supply dwindles as core breeding herds have to be maintained. Harvest foods (fruits and vegetables) will be up 15% based on fuel costs alone. That is the real cost of your head long rush into anything that you can think of just to be moving towards this goal you now call energy independence.

Bio-Fuels should be abandoned until the second generation ones can be developed ( the ones using waste bio-mass ), fuel from food is killing people in the third world, right now, not in 50 years but in this year.

We are going to have a real food crisis in western countries if these policies are continued, we are not without those in poverty and we are condemning even more to join their ranks with high food and energy costs to pay for this Independence.

You want an example of a green job revolution, How many NEW full-time jobs are there at a 30Mw Wind Farm after construction? Answer is ZERO. How many new jobs to build it, 150 local full time jobs for 1 year, then nothing.

USA lost 63,000 jobs in February.

You would need to start to build 420 x 30Mw new wind farms this month to match the job loss. Then after one year everyone would be out of work again for 10-25 years, the life span of the turbines.

I am all for Energy Independence, but not at any price. There are some costs I cannot morally pay.