Yes, one hell of a lot of oil sand and shale in Alberta and Saskatchewan, but one hell of a lot of the boreal forest gets destroyed, and trememdous amounts of water are used and aquifers are contaminated, etc. It takes years to develop this resource.
Alberta could triple oil sands production, but this doesn't begin to deal with the growing world need for energy.

Biofuel crops displace food crops and the amount by no means will meet future needs as energy use will triple in the next thirty years.

Nuclear power is most feasible, but the problem of waste hasn't been solved. This looks like the only solution for the long haul.

Lots of talk about offshore oil, and cloud nine predictions of the billions of barrels out there, but this is only guesstimation, as we used to call it. I spend many years in research and exploration with a major, and we learned that only the drill could answer the question of reserves. And not just one or two exploratory holes, because one could hit a limited 'glory hole.' Several years of exploration, building tankers, constructing refineries would be involved even if succesful.
Much of the Arctic Slope has large areas where the thermal history would have destroyed oil, and porosity can be very discontinuous- many other problems, including damaging an important ecological-biological resource.   

Liquid fuels have their place, but increasing nuclear power to generate electricity to power industry and the needs of cities seems inevitable.

Neither McCain nor Obama seem to have any knowledge of the energy problem, nor have they shown how the United States can continue to prosper in the 21st century world which the United States cannot dominate, and in which it must cooperate with equals.

It seems likely that the U. S. will continue to muddle along, slowly falling behind. The fruitless Middle Eastern war is using up resources that need to be spend on developing its future. The Democratic Congress went with along with the astronomical expenditure asked for by the Bush administration, and no protest or words of caution were heard from either Obama or McCain.


Just my depressing, and I'm sure, rather incohrent thoughts.