This interview is really great!  Tom says:

'...it's about national power -- not power so we can stomp all over the rest of the world, but power so we can actually be where we need to be as a country, to lead the world they way we need to lead the world and also to pass on what we need to pass on for the next generation."'

My advice, use the force Tom!

Use the powerful leverage of oil demand reduction, relentlessly proceeding incrementally a few percent per year, year after year, there's the power to revive our national confidence.  Our factories supplying the plugin hybrid cars and energy devices to do that.

Win the GHG climate change battle and get the economy out of the duuuhbya ditch, the way we won WW II.  Production: government contracts specifying the technological parameters of plugin hybrids, solar cogeneration panels, ground source heating/cooling systems, and smart grid devices to hook it all up.  

Contracts for millions of these devices every year, payed for by withdrawing subsidies for the oil and coal industries.

That'll end a depression.  Better than a bail out or stimulus, it is revenue neutral.  No new debt!

So will he read this?  Hehey.