I find it hard to believe congress is serious about an energy bill that does not contain maximizing the current energy resources that we are familiar with and have proven costs and benefits well known rather then going after unproven techniques that are controversial and have limited information about the cost/benefits and the unintended consequences. What is wrong with going after more nuclear power facilities? We already have a number in excess of 100 that have track records of risks and costs. What is wrong with increasing our efforts to find additional oil resources and exploiting the many that have already been identified like Alaska, off shore in the gulf, and others. We know the costs and benefits and risks with these. Why not exploit our coal reserves rather the big investments in wind and solar. Can you imagine living across the street from 100 acres of wind mills or solar cells. (senator Kennedy and the people in Massachusetts did.) Come on congress get serious and if you can't get out of the way and put a panel of experts together and in an open forum discuss and listen to what they have to say and what their recommendations would be. Try a group from American Enterprise Institute, Brooking, Cato, and the Heritage Foundation and any other experts you want and listen to their consensus solutions to a serious problem and get the politics out of it( this is not my idea but it is a good one). Grandpa