"We have to use the resources that WE have."

Except we aren't capable of using them responsibly, and in the case of hydrocarbons they are finite and will become ever more costly to extract. We're not self-sufficient in any hydrocarbons now and in truth if there was an ounce of sense in the government we would be investing in R&D for renewables for when the penny finally drops and green energy becomes a global market. However, the myopia of short-term thinking rules the roost and we blunder on enslaved to energy generation systems that are past their prime, in terms of efficiency, pollution and environmental degradation.

Wind farms are partially the answer, it's just for some reason the toffs want to destroy that particular industry. Tidal and wave power are less practical and possibly more problematic for already threatened costal ecosystems.

Oh, and there's a huge fuck-off nuclear fission reactor showering our beleaguered planet with nearly terrawatts of energy daily which could be used to heat our water, light and warm our homes and for any other number of things. So put solar panels on the roof of every building in the country, and convection heaters for our water and you're pretty much sorted . . . oh, except the hydrocarbon-sellers and their lackeys won't like that one bit will they?