We need GDP to rise, and with consumer, and investment spending down, and our imports exceeding our exports the only way we can raise GDP is through government spending. The gov. can create jobs with a new deal like job program. Doing things like improving infrastructure, maybe mass producing solar panels, really anything will do. But we might as well improve, and advance our society with such programs. Yeah you could drill, but why pour money into a tech, and resource that we need to get away from. With these new jobs, it will give more people a steady income, in turn they will spend, which will increase consumer spending, which will help investment spending, and if we produce enough products with this program, we can even out the ratio of imports/exports. With these factors increasing, and the improved market more jobs will open up. Thats when we can cut down this job program, and let those workers find jobs in an improved market. Then we can concentrate on reducing this massive deficit we have. We need to focus on improving the economy first, and we might as well tackle one of the biggest issues facing the future generations of the not only this country, but the world early. So we can save not only us, but our kids, and grandkids a very big hassle. We are at a juncture on this issue where we could do nothing, and make the future generations race against time to solve it. Or we can solve it now, and move on from this dangerous, and nonrenewable source of energy.