In his State of the Union Address last night, President Bush called for an energy agenda having these main points:  

1) “We must continue changing the way America generates electric power - by even greater use of clean coal technology ... solar and wind energy ... and clean, safe nuclear power.”

2) “We need to press on with battery research for plug-in and hybrid vehicles…”

3) “…and expand the use of clean diesel vehicles and biodiesel fuel.”

4) “We must continue investing in new  methods of producing ethanol - using everything from wood chips, to grasses, to agricultural wastes.”

5) “Let us build on the work we have done and reduce gasoline usage in the United States by 20% in the next ten years, thereby cutting our total imports by the equivalent of three-quarters of all the oil we now import from the Middle East.” 

To do this, Bush proposes we do the following:

a) “increase the supply of alternative fuels, by setting a mandatory Fuels Standard to require 35 billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuels in 2017 - this is nearly five times the current target.”

b) “reform and modernize fuel economy standards for cars the way we did for light trucks and conserve up to eight and a half billion more gallons of gasoline by 2017.”