No question about the public not wanting his energy saving program. The public did not want it when Jimmy Carter proposed cutting back on energy and searching for alternatives to petroleum in the 1970s. They would not want it now even if republicans who are determined to feed the fat cats at the expense of the country or petroleum lobbyists were to remain silent. Some of the public would not want it anyway. He is certainly contemptible the way he is using a crisis to do something that will benefit the country and make the future less threatening. If only he was as honorable as the Bush-Cheney administration who used a national crisis to make war on Iraq to return the Iraqi oil field to BP.