Obama? Just guessing, but I think he might grok the beautiful simplicity of it all. His grandmother worked in war production in WW 2. And he doesn't feel the need to listen exclusively to lobbyists when it comes to policy decisions. The tax neutrality of it and the non-giveaway nature of the plan, taxpayers get plugin cars that save the treasury fuel costs, that's the financial beauty. Only "drill, drill, drill, baby" fans will object. And even hummer owners will have to admit, that putting most people in plugin hybrids and keeping oil prices stable, makes their macho driving habits even more exciting (ie. they can crush any plugin that gets in their way) and relatively affordable. If most oil use in cars is cut by 80 to 90%, and long haul trucks are converted to natural gas, and trains (commuter and freight) are electric; well then that "drill, drilling" domestically would actually provide enough oil to eliminate imports. And the oil would last for decades. This is the best coalition building plan yet. Add some drilling, coal CCS to liquid, nuclear, and cellulosic ethanol projects to satify the lobbyists. Just a few experimental ones. Then put the immediate car company bailing production plan, payed for by diverting oil industry subsidies, into action right now. It funds itself, the only plan that does. We can rightly argue, with our huge deficit and debt problem (from the bush era), we need a fiscally responsible, conservative business like approach. The same kind of action that ended the depession. Massive mass production and job creation, government choosing the product and issuing million order contracts. Meanwhile the same scattered silver bird shot, R&D effort goes on with government funding. Like radar, atomic bomb, rocket research for instance, did during WW 2. Instead of bombs, this time make plugin cars, and other renewable energy equipment. Fund a few of each main new energy technological possibilities. But go with mass production in the meanwhile, of proven techologies. Solar cogeneration, distributed generation and storage smart grids, plugin hybrids, electric mass transit, farm biogas/organic ag grid backup, wind is taking off on it's own already. But why not have government order 100,000 wind machines per year be mass produced and installed across the northern great plains and on floating platforms in offshore wind farms? A really huge new national park and national wind farm would be a great energy source for the next 30 years as other renewables like rooftop solar eventually replace them. Technological innovation will make solar more and more efficient and cheaper. It's inevitable. The wind machines will be recycled in solar furnaces. Furnaces that generate grid power at night from stoted waste heat.