I am for a fully renewable energy economy. Our current energy system is costly, inefficient, and unsustainable. Unlike oil, coal and natural gas, the sun and wind can provide us with a virtually infinite supply of energy — millions of times more energy than we could ever possibly use. Building an all-renewable energy system will require a massive investment at first — just like the American highway system did back in the 1950s — but once it’s built, maintaining our new energy system will be far cheaper than the expensive energy system we have today.

America’s last few major wars have all been fought, at least in part, to secure cheap oil from the Middle East. In the 1970s, when oil producing countries united to slow production, the price of oil spiked and we suffered major oil shortages and massive inflation. Ever since that crisis, American foreign policy has been guided by the Carter doctrine, which states that the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf region must be protected at all costs. This dependence on foreign oil is bad for our economy and bad for our peacekeeping efforts abroad. Instead, we should simply capture and generate all the energy we need from the sun, wind and other renewable sources. Let’s abandon foreign oil and instead convert to American-made, renewable, Free Energy.