I've long said dedicate half of true current military expenditures to alternative energy R&D simply by converting to a defense force located in the US as other other nations practice. In our current debtor nation service economy status we certainly don't have anything else going for us that's going to turn the economy around in spite of 'new' 50-year old fields that could potentially produce six-months of US oil consumption at the current rate of consumption over a period of perhaps a decade.