Starting with Richard Nixon, and to the present day, evry president has asked congress to start exploring a policy to get us away from mid east oil.Things happen, and its forgotten, Nixon was pushing for [imagine this]health care reform, and energy policy, then came water gate.Ford had the pueblo thing kill him.Carter had Iran, no energy policy.Reagan talked about it,but thats all.Clinton might have done something, then another "spill" side tracked him.What was mentioned25 years ago was nuclear energy, we know how that went over.Ronnie killed the electic cars, with help from GM and the oil industry, so everyone knows we have a looming problem, and what happens?Can someone or some group be killing all these great ideas? Both Bushes asked for a policy, the only one who didn't raise the energy thing was LBJ, wonder why, could viet nam have had anything to do with it.