Energy

First of all, I think that the best way to run cars would be for someone to hurry up and invent the device shown in Back to the Future II, that is, "Mr. Fusion." A scene from the movie shows Emmit Brown placing garbage into a tube in his time machine (another invention someone needs to go ahead and invent already). Mr. Fusion turned normal household waste into the 1.21 gigowatts of energy needed to travel through time. There was no gasoline used or pollution produced by this machine. If Mr. Fusion can move you thousands of years in a few seconds, imagine how fast you could get to work! How fast could you get to school? The possibilities....
Seriously though, I am not sure what to do for this energy issue. I was very enthusiastic about it in class (more enthusiastic than education, I'll tell you that much), but right now I am not sure where to go. I could write about the feasibility of making more energy-efficient cars as "mandated" by Barack Obama. I could also talk about the need for nuclear energy and why it is shunned like the plague today, despite how clean and safe it actually is. Think about how much smog comes out of a coal plant! Who wants Black Lung Disease? Not me! I don't imagine Al Gore likes it, either, but what do you want to bet he says "no" to nuclear energy? Anyway...
I could also talk about our shameless addiction to foreign oil. I think that the fact that oil prices closed at over 100 bucks a barrel today warrants some sort of treatment of the issue. However, we are deathly afraid of messing up one polar bear's living room by drilling in ANWAR. The actual footprint left by the equipment is really small; almost all of the drilling and stuff is done underground, anyway! We already know that the oil there would really help us out for a long time. We could also invest in drilling off the coast of Florida/in the Gulf of Mexico. However, that would mean we would be taking oil from the same general body of water that Hugo Chavez takes his from! Heaven forbid we should do that and offend poor Huguillo, the reasonable, democratic leader he is. I bet he would get mad at us and say worty dirds about our country. Oh no!